How to format your references using the Cytogenetic and Genome Research citation style

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

Kappeler PM. Evolution. Why male mammals are monogamous. Science. 2013 Aug;341(6145):469–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hill A, Cooke G. Medicine. Hepatitis C can be cured globally, but at what cost? Science. 2014 Jul;345(6193):141–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kartal B, Kuenen JG, van Loosdrecht MCM. Engineering. Sewage treatment with anammox. Science. 2010 May;328(5979):702–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Monecke T, Güttler T, Neumann P, Dickmanns A, Görlich D, Ficner R. Crystal structure of the nuclear export receptor CRM1 in complex with Snurportin1 and RanGTP. Science. 2009 May;324(5930):1087–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fortey RA, Bruton DL. Lower Ordovician Trilobites of the Kirtonryggen Formation, Spitsbergen. Norway: The Lethaia Foundation; 2013.

An edited book

Chen M. System-Level Validation: High-Level Modeling and Directed Test Generation Techniques. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

DeMuri GP, Wald ER. Microbiology of Acute, Subacute, and Chronic Rhinosinusitis in Children. In: Chang CC, Incaudo GA, Gershwin ME, editors. Diseases of the Sinuses: A Comprehensive Textbook of Diagnosis and Treatment. New York, NY: Springer; 2014; pp 89–97.

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 Cytogenetic and Genome Research.

Blog post

Fang J. Where Do Penises Come From? [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Nov [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-men-have-just-one-penis-while-snakes-and-lizards-have-pair/

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. Federal Research: Assessment of the Financial Audit for SEMATECH’s Activities in 1991. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Crooks RH. Analysis Of The XY Spin 1/2 Model In Staggered Field And Networks Of D-Wave Josephson Junctions. 2012

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

Vecsey G. Jeter Could Leave the Yankees To Expand His Horizons, and Attire. New York Times. 2010 Dec;B14.

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	Cytogenetic and Genome Research
Abbreviation	Cytogenet. Genome Res.
ISSN (print)	1424-8581
ISSN (online)	1424-859X
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology Genetics(clinical)