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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Abbott, A. (2000) Space-station airlock to serve as temporary lab. Nature, 405,7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rieseberg, L.H. and Willis, J.H. (2007) Plant speciation. Science, 317,910–914.

A journal article with 3 authors

Almeda, R., Connelly, T.L., and Buskey, E.J. (2014) Novel insight into the role of heterotrophic dinoflagellates in the fate of crude oil in the sea. Sci. Rep., 4,7560.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Kang, H.J., Yi, Y.W., Hong, Y.B., Kim, H.J., Jang, Y.-J., Seong, Y.-S., and Bae, I. (2014) HER2 confers drug resistance of human breast cancer cells through activation of NRF2 by direct interaction. Sci. Rep., 4,7201.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khouw, M.C. and Guthner, M.W. (2016) The Options Edge + Free Trial. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mishra, R.S. (2014) Friction Stir Welding and Processing: Science and Engineering. De PS, Kumar N, editors Cham: Springer International Publishing. XII, 338 p. 274 illus., 112 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Biskup, J. and Bonatti, P. (2006) Controlled Query Evaluation with Open Queries for a Decidable Relational Submodel. In: Dix J, Hegner SJ, editors. Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems: 4th International Symposium, FoIKS 2006, Budapest, Hungary, Februrary 14-17, 2006. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 43–62.

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) You Can Now Build Your Very Own Powerful Telescope At Home. 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. (1973) Patrol Frigate. 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

Warren, K.L. (2014) Agents of change: A new role for learners in online workplace training [Doctoral dissertation]. Minneapolis, MN: Capella University.

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

Baker, P. (2017) Investigation Takes On Gravity In Dangerous Phase for Trump. New York Times,A1.

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