How to format your references using the Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental 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]

P. Anand, Public health. Decision-making when science is ambiguous, Science 295 (2002) 1839.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.J. Huneycutt, R.J. Saykally, Chemistry. Building solutions--one molecule at a time, Science 299 (2003) 1329–1330.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Weil, M. Graham, A. Fung, Science and regulation. Targeting transparency, Science 340 (2013) 1410–1411.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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G. Dehnhardt, B. Mauck, W. Hanke, H. Bleckmann, Hydrodynamic trail-following in harbor seals (Phoca vitulina), Science 293 (2001) 102–104.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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G.J. Beach, The U.S. Technology Skills Gap, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

S.N. Mathaudhu, W.H. Sillekens, N.R. Neelameggham, N. Hort, eds., Magnesium Technology 2012, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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P.C. Miles, Turbulent Flow Structure in Direct-Injection, Swirl-Supported Diesel Engines, in: C. Arcoumanis, T. Kamimoto (Eds.), Flow and Combustion in Reciprocating Engines, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 173–256.

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 - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis.

Blog post

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S. Luntz, New Evidence Plants Can “Think” And Make Decisions Based On Possible Future Risks, IFLScience (2014).

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, Space Communications: Performance of NASA’s White Sands Ground Terminal, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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T. Chandwasker, Comparison of ad-hoc on demand distance vector and enhanced-ad-hoc on demand distance vector on vehicular ad-hoc networks, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2016.

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]

T.J. Brennan, Why Pot, Not Pills, Works for My T.B.I, New York Times (2017) A23.

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 - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis
Abbreviation	Mutat. Res. Genet. Toxicol. Environ. Mutagen.
ISSN (print)	1383-5718
Scope	Genetics Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis