How to format your references using the Chromosome Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chromosome 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 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

Blake DT (2012) Neuroscience: how brains learn to control machines. Nature 483:284–285

A journal article with 2 authors

Demaurex N, Distelhorst C (2003) Cell biology. Apoptosis--the calcium connection. Science 300:65–67

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo J, Zhu J, Ye H (2004) Comment on “Tubular graphite cones.” Science 303:766; author reply 766

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Meghraoui M, Delouis B, Ferry M, et al (2001) Active normal faulting in the upper Rhine graben and paleoseismic identification of the 1356 Basel earthquake. Science 293:2070–2073

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Köhler A, Bässler H (2015) Electronic Processes in Organic Semiconductors. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Perez-Ruiz F (2014) Managing Gout in Primary Care. Springer Healthcare Ltd., Tarporley

A chapter in an edited book

Capaccioli M, Galano S (2012) La giostra dei personaggi nel crepuscolo dei Borbone. In: Galano S (ed) Arminio Nobile e la misura del cielo: ovvero Le disavventure di un astronomo napoletano. Springer, Milano, pp 57–74

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 Chromosome Research.

Blog post

Davis J (2017) Great Barrier Reef Under Threat Of Being Listed A “World Heritage Site In Danger.” In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/great-barrier-reef-under-threat-of-being-listed-a-world-heritage-site-in-danger/. 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 (2007) Aviation Security: Risk, Experience, and Customer Concerns Drive Changes to Airline Passenger Screening Procedures, but Evaluation and Documentation of Proposed Changes Could Be Improved. 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

Richardson RS (2015) A phenomenological hermeneutic study of radiology. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Santora M, Baker AL (2017) Despite Strict Gun Law, Doctor Was Able to Buy Assault Rifle. New York Times A15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blake 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Demaurex and Distelhorst 2003; Blake 2012).

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

Two authors: (Demaurex and Distelhorst 2003)
Three or more authors: (Meghraoui et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chromosome Research
Abbreviation	Chromosome Res.
ISSN (print)	0967-3849
ISSN (online)	1573-6849
Scope	Genetics