How to format your references using the Current Genetics citation style

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

Doncaster CP (2006) Comment on “On the regulation of populations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects” III. Science 311:1100; author reply 1100

A journal article with 2 authors

Orphanides G, Reinberg D (2000) RNA polymerase II elongation through chromatin. Nature 407:471–475

A journal article with 3 authors

Bajcsy M, Zibrov AS, Lukin MD (2003) Stationary pulses of light in an atomic medium. Nature 426:638–641

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Huang X, McCoy AB, Bowman JM, et al (2006) Quantum deconstruction of the infrared spectrum of CH5+. Science 311:60–63

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Higgs J, Titchen A (2008) Professional Practice in Health, Education and the Creative Arts. Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Veves A, Giurini JM, LoGerfo FW (eds) (2012) The Diabetic Foot: Medical and Surgical Management, 3rd ed. 2012. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ

A chapter in an edited book

Hazewinkel M, Gubareni N, Kirichenko VV (2007) Frobenius algebras and quasi-Frobenius rings. In: Hazewinkel M, Gubareni N, Kirichenko VV (eds) Algebras, Rings and Modules. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 161–217

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 Genetics.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) 80-Million-Year-Old Lizard Links The Old World With The New. In: IFLScience. 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 (1971) Office of Education Should Improve Procedures To Recover Defaulted Loans Under the Guaranteed Student Loan Program. 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

So RJ (2010) Coolie democracy: U.S.-China political and literary exchange, 1925-1955. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia 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

de la MERCED MJ, Steel E (2017) As Content Makers Rise, Malone Eyes Consolidation. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Doncaster 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Orphanides and Reinberg 2000; Doncaster 2006).

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

Two authors: (Orphanides and Reinberg 2000)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Genetics
Abbreviation	Curr. Genet.
ISSN (print)	0172-8083
ISSN (online)	1432-0983
Scope	Genetics General Medicine