How to format your references using the Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Tidal dissipation and the strength of the Earth’s internal magnetic field.

Buffett BA.

Nature. 2010 ; 468(7326) : 952–4.

PMID 21164483

A journal article with 2 authors

Nanotechnology. Toward nanocomputers.

Tseng GY, Ellenbogen JC.

Science. 2001 ; 294(5545) : 1293–4.

PMID 11701916

A journal article with 3 authors

Recombination and the nature of bacterial speciation.

Fraser C, Hanage WP, Spratt BG.

Science. 2007 ; 315(5811) : 476–80.

PMID 17255503

A journal article with 4 or more authors

A role for cell-cycle-regulated histone H3 lysine 56 acetylation in the DNA damage response.

Masumoto H, Hawke D, Kobayashi R, Verreault A.

Nature. 2005 ; 436(7048) : 294–8.

PMID 16015338

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Topology and Its Applications.

Basener WF.

Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006

An edited book

Leadership in Surgery.

Kibbe MR, Chen H, editors.

Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015

A chapter in an edited book

A Neuro-Genetic Framework for Multi-Classifier Design: An Application to Promoter Recognition in DNA Sequences.

Ranawana R, Palade V.

In: Jain LC, Palade V, Srinivasan D, editors. Advances in Evolutionary Computing for System Design, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007, p. 71–94

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 Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology.

Blog post

This Brick-Laying Robot Can Build A House In A Few Days.

Hale T.

IFLScience. 2016.

https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-bricklaying-robot-can-build-a-house-in-a-few-days/ (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

A Bibliography of Documents Issued by the GAO on Matters Related to: ADP.

Government Accountability Office.

Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

The surgical technologist learning partnership: A comparison of factors in a preceptor relationship.

Ross TA.

The surgical technologist learning partnership: A comparison of factors in a preceptor relationship. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2008

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

For Fox News, Life After Bill O’Reilly Will Feature Tucker Carlson.

Grynbaum MM, Koblin J.

New York Times. 2017 : B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Buffett, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Buffett, 2010; Tseng and Ellenbogen, 2001).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Tseng and Ellenbogen, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Masumoto et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology
Abbreviation	Atlas Genet. Cytogenet. Oncol. Haematol.
ISSN (online)	1768-3262
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