How to format your references using the Current Genetic Medicine Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Genetic Medicine Reports. 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 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

1. Koenig R. COMPUTER SCIENCE: Flushing Out Nasty Viruses in the Balkans. Science. 2000;289:1863–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Boesz C, Lloyd N. Collaborations: investigating international misconduct. Nature. 2008;452:686–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mayr C, Hemann MT, Bartel DP. Disrupting the pairing between let-7 and Hmga2 enhances oncogenic transformation. Science. 2007;315:1576–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. McNeil BI, Matear RJ, Key RM, Bullister JL, Sarmiento JL. Anthropogenic CO2 uptake by the ocean based on the global chlorofluorocarbon data set. Science. 2003;299:235–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Imbriale WA. Large Antennas of the Deep Space Network. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Tymieniecka A-T, editor. Human Creation between Reality and Illusion. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gonzalez MEQ, Broens MC, D’Ottaviano FL. Abductive Reasoning, Information, and Mechanical Systems. In: Kacprzyk J, Magnani L, Li P, editors. Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 91–102.

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 Current Genetic Medicine Reports.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Nike Will Release Self-Lacing “Back To The Future” Shoes For 2016 [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/nike-will-release-self-lacing-back-future-trainers-2016/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Assessing the Federal Program for Strengthening Developing Institutions of Higher Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975 Oct. Report No.: MWD-76-1.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Lyngarkos B. Examination of the relative importance of website elements for users of manufacturers representative websites [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 2015.

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

1. Brantley B. Returning to Broadway on Heavier Wings. New York Times. 2017 Oct 27;C1.

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	Current Genetic Medicine Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Genet. Med. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2167-4876
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