How to format your references using the Mutation Research-Reviews in Mutation Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mutation Research-Reviews in Mutation Research. 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]

J. Heritage, Plant sciences. Will GM rapeseed cut the mustard?, Science 302 (2003) 401–403.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Bianchi, D. Shore, Molecular biology. Refined view of the ends, Science 320 (2008) 1301–1302.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.W. Behie, P.M. Zelisko, M.J. Bidochka, Endophytic insect-parasitic fungi translocate nitrogen directly from insects to plants, Science 336 (2012) 1576–1577.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Wang, A.M.D. Lee, H. Lui, D.I. McLean, H. Zeng, A method for accurate in vivo micro-Raman spectroscopic measurements under guidance of advanced microscopy imaging, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1890.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.W. Vallin, The Elements of Cantor Sets, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

H. Deng, D. Miao, F.L. Wang, J. Lei, eds., Emerging Research in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence: International Conference, AICI 2011, Taiyuan, China, September 23-25, 2011. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Sampaolesi, J.R. Sampaolesi, J. Zárate, Structure and Function of the Tissues That Are in Contact with the Aqueous Humor, in: J.R. Sampaolesi, J. Zárate (Eds.), The Glaucomas: Volume II - Open Angle Glaucoma and Angle Closure Glaucoma, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014: pp. 39–70.

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-Reviews in Mutation Research.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Scientists Are Using Drones To Help Predict Coastal Erosion, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-are-using-drones-help-predict-coastal-erosion/ (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, Amtrak: Deteriorated Financial and Operating Conditions, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

O.W. Joseph, A study of the effectiveness of mentor roles in a rural school district, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.

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.B. Stewart, Trump Puts Barometers of Wall St. to the Test, New York Times (2016) B1.

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-Reviews in Mutation Research
Abbreviation	Mutat. Res. Rev. Mutat. Res.
ISSN (print)	1383-5742
Scope	Genetics Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis