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. Couzin-Frankel, Clinical trials. Researchers seek clear reasons when clinical trials end early, Science 349 (2015) 222.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Ortíz-Barrientos, M.A.F. Noor, Evidence for a one-allele assortative mating locus, Science 310 (2005) 1467.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

O.J. Plante, E.R. Palmacci, P.H. Seeberger, Automated solid-phase synthesis of oligosaccharides, Science 291 (2001) 1523–1527.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K.H. Tsang, S.K. Lai, Q. Li, W.H. Yung, H. Liu, P.H.S. Mak, C.C.P. Ng, G. McAlonan, Y.S. Chan, S.Y. Chan, The nucleosome assembly protein TSPYL2 regulates the expression of NMDA receptor subunits GluN2A and GluN2B, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3654.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Kölle, Wasseranalysen - richtig beurteilt, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

F. Chen, ed., Speech Technology: Theory and Applications, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Guidotti, M. Berlingerio, Where Is My Next Friend? Recommending Enjoyable Profiles in Location Based Services, in: H. Cherifi, B. Gonçalves, R. Menezes, R. Sinatra (Eds.), Complex Networks VII: Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Complex Networks CompleNet 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 65–78.

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, Paper Microscope Can Be Made in Minutes, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/paper-microscope-can-be-made-minutes/ (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, Health Information Technology: Efforts Continue but Comprehensive Privacy Approach Needed for National Strategy, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N.J. Haneef, A synthesized conceptual framework for the design of user interfaces of interactive information products, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 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]

B. Weiser, B. Protess, M. Goldstein, W.K. Rashbaum, A U.S. Attorney Who Shunned Politics Meets an End Tinged by Them, 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-Reviews in Mutation Research
Abbreviation	Mutat. Res. Rev. Mutat. Res.
ISSN (print)	1383-5742
Scope	Genetics Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis