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

Been, M.D. (2006) Molecular biology. Versatility of self-cleaving ribozymes. Science, 313,1745–1747.

A journal article with 2 authors

Petersen, J. and Hagan, I.M. (2005) Polo kinase links the stress pathway to cell cycle control and tip growth in fission yeast. Nature, 435,507–512.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu, B., Wang, Q., and Tian, Y. (2013) Bulk modulus for polar covalent crystals. Sci. Rep., 3,3068.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Ichiki, K., Takahashi, K., Ohno, H., Hanayama, H., and Sugiyama, N. (2006) Cosmological magnetic field: a fossil of density perturbations in the early universe. Science, 311,827–829.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thériault, M. and Rosiers, F.D. (2011) Modeling Urban Dynamics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Next-Generation FTTH Passive Optical Networks: Research Towards Unlimited Bandwidth Access (2008). Prat J, editor Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. XLII, 188 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Pratt, L.J. and Whitehead, J.A. (2007) Coastal Applications. In: Whitehead JA, editor. Rotating Hydraulics: Nonlinear Topographic Effects in the Ocean and Atmosphere. Atmospheric And Oceanographic Sciences Library. New York, NY: Springer. pp. 369–414.

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

Fang, J. (2014) Not Too Brutish: Neanderthals Hunted Pigeons. 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. (2002) Title I: Education Needs to Monitor States’ Scoring of Assessments. 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

Jackson, M. (2013) Creating community in a dual immersion program: A grant writing project [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Pilon, M. (2013) Olympic Leaders Mend U.S. Ties With the I.O.C. New York Times,D1.

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