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

Anderson, D. L. 2001, Geophysics. Top-down tectonics? Science, 293, 2016–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shinnar, R., and Citro, F. 2006, Energy. A road map to U.S. decarbonization. Science, 313, 1243–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Henrich, J., Heine, S. J., and Norenzayan, A. 2010, Most people are not WEIRD. Nature, 466, 29.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Burlaga, L. F., Ness, N. F., Acuña, M. H., et al. 2005, Crossing the termination shock into the heliosheath: magnetic fields. Science, 309, 2027–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Permyakov, E. A., and Kretsinger, R. H. 2010, Calcium Binding Proteins. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

James, N. P. 2011, Neritic Carbonate Sediments in a Temperate Realm: Southern Australia Bone, Y., (ed.), . Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Giga, M.-H., Giga, Y., and Saal, J. 2010, Various Properties of Solutions of the Heat Equation In: Giga, Y., and Saal, J., (eds.), Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations: Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions and Self-Similar Solutions. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, pp. 141–80.

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

Luntz, S. 2014, February 22, Editing the Human Genome One Letter At A Time. 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. 1991, Tax Policy: Refund Offset Program Benefits Appear to Exceed Costs. 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

Mosbacker, H. L. 2008, Control of Electrical Transport Mechanisms at Metal-Zinc Oxide Interfaces by Subsurface Defect Engineering with Remote Plasma Treatment. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Hubbard, B. 2016, October 15, Saudi-Led Coalition Admits Error in Funeral Bombing in Yemen. New York Times, p. A12.

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