How to format your references using the Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

C.J. Burns, Chemistry. Bridging a gap in actinide chemistry, Science. 309 (2005) 1823–1824.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.P. Rambo, J.A. Tainer, Accurate assessment of mass, models and resolution by small-angle scattering, Nature. 496 (2013) 477–481.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.K. McGinty, R.C. Henrici, S. Tan, Crystal structure of the PRC1 ubiquitylation module bound to the nucleosome, Nature. 514 (2014) 591–596.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Drescher, M. Hentschel, R. Kienberger, M. Uiberacker, V. Yakovlev, A. Scrinzi, T. Westerwalbesloh, U. Kleineberg, U. Heinzmann, F. Krausz, Time-resolved atomic inner-shell spectroscopy, Nature. 419 (2002) 803–807.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D.B. Malpass, E.I. Band, Introduction to Industrial Polypropylene, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

A. Lenk, Electromechanical Systems in Microtechnology and Mechatronics: Electrical, Mechanical and Acoustic Networks, their Interactions and Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K.J. Wojno, L.R. Bégin, Testicular Tumor Pathology, in: W.D. Foulkes, K.A. Cooney (Eds.), Male Reproductive Cancers: Epidemiology, Pathology and Genetics, Springer, New York, NY, 2010: pp. 121–139.

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 Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Antarctic Temperatures Reach Record Highs, IFLScience. (2015).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Market Research: Better Documentation Needed to Inform Future Procurements at Selected Agencies, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H.-J. Song, Strategic Constraints of Economic Interdependence: South Korea’s Changing Strategy in the Face of a Rising China, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2014.

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

[1]

J. Poniewozik, The President Changes His Tone, if Not His Tune, New York Times. (2017) A18.

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	Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis
Abbreviation	Mutat. Res.
ISSN (print)	0027-5107
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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