How to format your references using the Mutagenesis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mutagenesis. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Kelley, K.A. (2014) Geophysics. Inside Earth runs hot and cold. Science, 344,51–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shimamoto, T. and Togo, T. (2012) Geophysics. Earthquakes in the lab. Science, 338,54–55.

A journal article with 3 authors

Irvine, W.T.M., Vitelli, V., and Chaikin, P.M. (2010) Pleats in crystals on curved surfaces. Nature, 468,947–951.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Came, R.E., Eiler, J.M., Veizer, J., Azmy, K., Brand, U., and Weidman, C.R. (2007) Coupling of surface temperatures and atmospheric CO2 concentrations during the Palaeozoic era. Nature, 449,198–201.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Bartlett, K. (2016) The Experience of History. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Buka’s Emergencies in Dermatology (2013). Buka B, Uliasz A, Krishnamurthy K, editors New York, NY: Springer. XIII, 294 p. 134 illus., 130 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Kiyomoto, S., Henricksen, M., Yap, W.-S., Nakano, Y., and Fukushima, K. (2011) MASHA – Low Cost Authentication with a New Stream Cipher. In: Lai X, Zhou J, Li H, editors. Information Security: 14th International Conference, ISC 2011, Xi’an, China, October 26-29, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 63–78.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Mutagenesis.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) Ancient Exoplanet Discovery Boosts Chances Of Finding Alien Life. IFLScience,. Accessed 30 October 2018.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (1980) Need for Improved Management and Increased Sharing of Computer Resources at the San Antonio Data Services Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Murray, T.M. (2008) A grounded theory of U.S. Army installation realignment and closure leadership characteristics [Doctoral dissertation]. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

MacFARQUHAR, N. (2017) No Dancer Escapes His Gaze. New York Times,C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Mutagenesis
Abbreviation	Mutagenesis
ISSN (print)	0267-8357
ISSN (online)	1464-3804
Scope	Genetics Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Genetics(clinical) Toxicology