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]

D.R. Lovley, Bioremediation. Anaerobes to the rescue, Science 293 (2001) 1444–1446.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Kurita, H. Tanaka, Critical-like phenomena associated with liquid-liquid transition in a molecular liquid, Science 306 (2004) 845–848.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Cabernard, K.E. Prehoda, C.Q. Doe, A spindle-independent cleavage furrow positioning pathway, Nature 467 (2010) 91–94.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Dadosh, Y. Gordin, R. Krahne, I. Khivrich, D. Mahalu, V. Frydman, J. Sperling, A. Yacoby, I. Bar-Joseph, Measurement of the conductance of single conjugated molecules, Nature 436 (2005) 677–680.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T.A. Taylor, Guide to LEED® 2009 Estimating and Preconstruction Strategies, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

P. Eichelsbacher, G. Elsner, H. Kösters, M. Löwe, F. Merkl, S. Rolles, eds., Limit Theorems in Probability, Statistics and Number Theory: In Honor of Friedrich Götze, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.-C. Laprie, K. Kanoun, M. Kaâniche, Modelling Interdependencies Between the Electricity and Information Infrastructures, in: F. Saglietti, N. Oster (Eds.), Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security: 26th International Conference, SAFECOMP 2007, Nuremberg, Germany, September 18-21, 2007. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007: pp. 54–67.

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

[1]

K. Hamilton, American Medical Association Warns Of Health And Safety Problems From “White” LED Streetlights, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/american-medical-association-warns-of-health-and-safety-problems-from-white-led-streetlights/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Railroad Safety: Accident Trends and FRA Safety Programs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Ramirez, Perceived efficacy of the O*NET Skills Search Tool among individuals with high functioning autism, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

L. Greenhouse, Legal Victory for Families of Disabled Students, New York Times (2007) A14.

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