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 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

Nataf HC (2000) Seismology. Inner core takes another turn. Nature 405: 411–412.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thorogood R, Davies NB (2012) Cuckoos combat socially transmitted defenses of reed warbler hosts with a plumage polymorphism. Science 337: 578–580.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kinoshita T, Wenger T, Weiss DS (2004) Observation of a one-dimensional Tonks-Girardeau gas. Science 305: 1125–1128.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang X, Xiao L, Shan X, et al. (2014) Lattice Boltzmann simulation of shale gas transport in organic nano-pores. Sci Rep 4: 4843.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schulman FY (2016) Veterinarian’s Guide to Maximizing Biopsy Results, Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Carayannis EG (2012) Institutional Learning and Knowledge Transfer Across Epistemic Communities: New Tools of Global Governance, New York, NY, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Al-Shaer E, Rahman MA (2016) Intrusion Detection Systems for AMI, In: Rahman MA (Ed.), Security and Resiliency Analytics for Smart Grids: Static and Dynamic Approaches, Cham, Springer International Publishing, 105–134.

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

Luntz S (2016) IFLScience, Bacteria Beat Plants To Quantum Capturing Of Light, 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/bacteria-beat-plants-to-quantum-capturing-of-light/.

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) Next Generation Air Transportation System: FAA Faces Implementation Challenges, 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

Paulone S (2013) Mergers and Acquisitions: Examining Managerial Strategy Connection to Post Transaction Accounting Measures.

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

Widdicombe B (2017) Glamour? There’s an App for That. New York Times ST4.

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