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

Howard, A. 2014, Building the bionic woman. Science, 346, 274.

A journal article with 2 authors

Green, D. R., and Kroemer, G. 2009, Cytoplasmic functions of the tumour suppressor p53. Nature, 458, 1127–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mason, N., Biercuk, M. J., and Marcus, C. M. 2004, Local gate control of a carbon nanotube double quantum dot. Science, 303, 655–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Matsumoto, K., Yoshitomi, H., Rossant, J., and Zaret, K. S. 2001, Liver organogenesis promoted by endothelial cells prior to vascular function. Science, 294, 559–63.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Happer, W., Jau, Y.-Y., and Walker, T. 2010, Optically Pumped Atoms. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Weiss, S., and Ferrand, N. (eds.). 2007, Phylogeography of Southern European Refugia: Evolutionary perspectives on the origins and conservation of European biodiversity. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Seeger, M. A., Bordignon, E., and Hohl, M. 2016, ABC Exporters from a Structural Perspective In: George, A. M., (ed.), ABC Transporters - 40 Years on. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 65–84.

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

Hamilton, K. 2014, October 22, Ten Bizarre Animals You’ve Never Heard Of. 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. 1977, Examination of Financial Operations for Fiscal Year 1975 Shows Need for Improvements in 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

Mathew, J. 2008, Examining the relationship between secondary school head teachers’ leadership and teachers’ satisfaction in Kerala, India. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Pilon, M. 2014, June 22, Eat, Stretch, Turn Off Your Cellphone. New York Times, p. TR1.

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