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

Smaglik, P. (2000) Climate change expert stirs new controversy. Nature, 407,7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shapiro, R.B. and Ossorio, P.N. (2013) Research ethics. Regulation of online social network studies. Science, 339,144–145.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takahashi, T., Svoboda, K., and Malinow, R. (2003) Experience strengthening transmission by driving AMPA receptors into synapses. Science, 299,1585–1588.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Weiss, J., Pyrski, M., Jacobi, E., et al. (2011) Loss-of-function mutations in sodium channel Nav1.7 cause anosmia. Nature, 472,186–190.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

AIChE Equipment Testing Procedure. (1987) Tray Distillation Columns. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Living Rivers: Trends and Challenges in Science and Management (2006). Leuven RSEW, Ragas AMJ, Smits AJM, Velde G van der, editors Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. VII, 371 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Hirai, K. (2016) The Peasants’ Dilemma: Finance and Fraud Problems in Purchasing Fertilizer in Taiwan (1910–1930s). In: Sawai M, editor. Economic Activities Under the Japanese Colonial Empire. Monograph Series of the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. Tokyo: Springer Japan. pp. 115–136.

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

Davis, J. (2016) Kennewick Man To Be Repatriated To Pacific Northwest Tribes After DNA Tests Confirm Relationship. 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. (1975) Problems in Administering Programs To Improve Law Enforcement Education. 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

Joseph, W.R. (2002) Physical Characterization of Vernix Caseosa: Implications for Biological Function [Doctoral dissertation]. Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.

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

St. John Mandel, E. (2016) Brave New World. New York Times,BR9.

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