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

Check E (2002) Safety panel backs principle of gene-therapy trials. Nature 420:595

A journal article with 2 authors

Linkenhoker BA, Knudsen EI (2002) Incremental training increases the plasticity of the auditory space map in adult barn owls. Nature 419:293–296

A journal article with 3 authors

Redford KH, Jensen DB, Breheny JJ (2012) Ecology. Integrating the captive and the wild. Science 338:1157–1158

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Riehle MA, Garczynski SF, Crim JW, et al (2002) Neuropeptides and peptide hormones in Anopheles gambiae. Science 298:172–175

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris M (2011) Concise Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Arase D (ed) (2016) China’s Rise and Changing Order in East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Schmidt H (2016) Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. In: H. Barrett D, W. Ortmann L, Dawson A, et al. (eds) Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 137–176

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

Andrew E (2015) Spain Has First Case Of Diphtheria In 28 Years Thanks To Anti-Vaxxers. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/spain-s-first-case-diphtheria-28-years-due-lack-vaccination/. 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 (1989) Training Programs: Information on Fiscal Years 1989 and 1990 Appropriations. 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

Moss KA (2017) The Development and Diffusion of the Cult of Isis in the Hellenistic Period. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Walsh MW (2011) Peter Mullen, Power at a Leading Law Firm, Dies at 83. New York Times B19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Linkenhoker and Knudsen 2002; Check 2002).

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

Two authors: (Linkenhoker and Knudsen 2002)
Three or more authors: (Riehle et al. 2002)

About the journal

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