How to format your references using the DNA Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for DNA Research. 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

Ezawa, M. 2013, High spin-Chern insulators with magnetic order. Sci. Rep., 3, 3435.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brambila, D. S., and Fratalocchi, A. 2013, Nonlinearly-enhanced energy transport in many dimensional quantum chaos. Sci. Rep., 3, 2359.

A journal article with 3 authors

Devine, J. A., Baker, K. D., and Haedrich, R. L. 2006, Fisheries: deep-sea fishes qualify as endangered. Nature, 439, 29.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang, K., Titchener, J. G., Kruk, S. S., et al. 2018, Quantum metasurface for multiphoton interference and state reconstruction. Science, 361, 1104–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopp, V. 2000, Grundlagen der Life Sciences. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Nibanupudi, H. K., and Shaw, R. (eds.). 2015, Mountain Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Akoumianakis, D., and Mavraki, D. 2016, Using Conversational Knowledge Management as a Lens for Virtual Collaboration in the Course of Small Group Activities In: Tsihrintzis, G. A., Virvou, M., and Jain, L. C., (eds.), Intelligent Computing Systems: Emerging Application Areas. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 115–31.

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 DNA Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2013, November 4, A ten-year-old boy has discovered a 600 million year-old supernova. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1978, Reporting of Federal Funds for Research and Development. 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

Baciu, A. B. 2010, Biopolitics and the influenza pandemics of 1918 and 2009 in the United States: Power, immunity, and the law. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Pomfret, J. 2017, February 6, Isolating China doesn’t work. New York Times, p. 0.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	DNA Research
Abbreviation	DNA Res.
ISSN (print)	1340-2838
ISSN (online)	1756-1663
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology General Medicine