How to format your references using the Mammalian Genome citation style

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

Dillehay TD (2002) Archaeology. Climate and human migrations. Science 298:764–765

A journal article with 2 authors

Chang L, Karin M (2001) Mammalian MAP kinase signalling cascades. Nature 410:37–40

A journal article with 3 authors

Álvarez GA, Suter D, Kaiser R (2015) QUANTUM SIMULATION. Localization-delocalization transition in the dynamics of dipolar-coupled nuclear spins. Science 349:846–848

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang J-J, Lv A-F, Wang Y-Q, et al (2013) Integrated prototype nanodevices via SnO₂ nanoparticles decorated SnSe nanosheets. Sci Rep 3:2613

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brower MC (2012) Wind Resource Assessment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Foelsch PA (2014) Adolescent Identity Treatment: An Integrative Approach for Personality Pathology. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Nakada M, Kita D, Hayashi Y, et al (2010) RNAi in Malignant Brain Tumors: Relevance to Molecular and Translational Research. In: Erdmann VA, Barciszewski J (eds) RNA Technologies and Their Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 107–129

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 Mammalian Genome.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2016) Bangladesh Is Building A Dirty And Expensive Coal Plant Next To The World’s Largest Mangrove Forest. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/bangladesh-is-building-a-dirty-and-expensive-coal-plant-next-to-the-worlds-largest-mangrove-forest/. 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 (1997) Telecommunications Management: More Effort Needed by Interior and the Forest Service to Achieve Savings. 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

Reitz MA (2016) Nonlinear Robust Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors With Applications to Hybrid Electric Vehicles. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Apuzzo M, Schmidt MS (2017) White House Tries Civility With Mueller. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dillehay 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Chang and Karin 2001; Dillehay 2002).

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

Two authors: (Chang and Karin 2001)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mammalian Genome
Abbreviation	Mamm. Genome
ISSN (print)	0938-8990
ISSN (online)	1432-1777
Scope	Genetics