How to format your references using the Chromosoma citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chromosoma. 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	Download the output style file
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

Zender L (2014) Cancer: interference identifies immune modulators. Nature 506:39–40

A journal article with 2 authors

Tao FF, Salmeron M (2011) In situ studies of chemistry and structure of materials in reactive environments. Science 331:171–174

A journal article with 3 authors

Seto KC, Kaufmann RK, Woodcock CE (2000) Landsat reveals China’s farmland reserves, but they’re vanishing fast. Nature 406:121

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Grimm NB, Faeth SH, Golubiewski NE, et al (2008) Global change and the ecology of cities. Science 319:756–760

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leis JW (2011) Digital Signal Processing Using MATLAB for Students and Researchers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Marks JM, Dunkin BJ (eds) (2013) Principles of Flexible Endoscopy for Surgeons. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Raman M, Ambalam P, Doble M (2016) Bioactive Carbohydrate: Prebiotics and Colorectal Cancer. In: Ambalam P, Doble M (eds) Probiotics and Bioactive Carbohydrates in Colon Cancer Management. Springer India, New Delhi, pp 57–82

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 Chromosoma.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Why Violent Psychopaths Don’t ‘Get’ Punishment. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-violent-psychopaths-don-t-get-punishment/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1998) Federal Education Funding: Multiple Programs and Lack of Data Raise Efficiency and Effectiveness Concerns (Supplemental Information to Testimony). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kolb JN (2015) What’s professional development got to do with it? The value of lesson study in implementing the common core standards for mathematical practices. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Couturier K (2017) The Nine and a Half Months That Shook Fox News. New York Times B6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zender 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Tao and Salmeron 2011; Zender 2014).

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

Two authors: (Tao and Salmeron 2011)
Three or more authors: (Grimm et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chromosoma
Abbreviation	Chromosoma
ISSN (print)	0009-5915
ISSN (online)	1432-0886
Scope	Genetics Genetics(clinical)