How to format your references using the AIMS Genetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AIMS Genetics. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Osheroff DD (2013) Robert Richardson (1937-2013). Nature 495: 450.

A journal article with 2 authors

de Groot BL, Grubmüller H (2001) Water permeation across biological membranes: mechanism and dynamics of aquaporin-1 and GlpF. Science 294: 2353–2357.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gonzalez S, Kitchener AC, Lister AM (2000) Survival of the Irish elk into the Holocene. Nature 405: 753–754.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cordenonsi M, Montagner M, Adorno M, et al. (2007) Integration of TGF-beta and Ras/MAPK signaling through p53 phosphorylation. Science 315: 840–843.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lemma A (2008) Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, West Sussex, England, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Böhle F, Bürgermeister M, Porschen S (Eds.) (2012) Innovation Management by Promoting the Informal: Artistic, Experience-based, Playful, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Marcelino MJ, Gomes CA, Silva MJ, et al. (2007) Schoolsenses@Internet, In: Fernández-Manjón B, Sánchez-Pérez JM, Gómez-Pulido JA, et al. (Eds.), Computers and Education: E-Learning, From Theory to Practice, Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 57–66.

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 AIMS Genetics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) IFLScience, Three Things We Have To Crack Before We Can Find Any Cures For Alzheimer’s, 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/three-things-we-have-crack-we-can-find-any-cures-alzheimer-s/.

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 (2012) Motorcycle Safety: Increasing Federal Funding Flexibility and Identifying Research Priorities Would Help Support States’ Safety Efforts, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Balakrishnan G (2017) Cognitive radio cooperative spectrum sensing.

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

Kelly C (2007) State Using Green Funds to Buy Parcel in Arrow Park. New York Times WE6.

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	AIMS Genetics
ISSN (online)	2377-1143
Scope