How to format your references using the Ecological Genetics and Genomics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ecological Genetics and Genomics. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

J.A. Kushner, Development. Esophageal stem cells, where art thou?, Science. 337 (2012) 1051–1052.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

X. Gao, L. Jiang, Biophysics: water-repellent legs of water striders, Nature. 432 (2004) 36.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.J.R. Thornalley, H. Elderfield, I.N. McCave, Holocene oscillations in temperature and salinity of the surface subpolar North Atlantic, Nature. 457 (2009) 711–714.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. Sherwood Lollar, T.D. Westgate, J.A. Ward, G.F. Slater, G. Lacrampe-Couloume, Abiogenic formation of alkanes in the Earth’s crust as a minor source for global hydrocarbon reservoirs, Nature. 416 (2002) 522–524.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C.H. Yoder, P.A. Leber, M.W. Thomsen, The Bridge to Organic Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

J.-I. Ishibashi, K. Okino, M. Sunamura, eds., Subseafloor Biosphere Linked to Hydrothermal Systems: TAIGA Concept, Springer Japan, Tokyo, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.K. Chapin, Hardware Implementation, in: J.K. Chapin, G.A. Gerhardt, D.J. McFarland, J.C. Principe, W.V. Soussou, D.M. Taylor, P.A. Tresco (Eds.), Brain-Computer Interfaces: An International Assessment of Research and Development Trends, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2008: pp. 65–79.

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 Ecological Genetics and Genomics.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Spider Venom Could Help Save Brains After Strokes, IFLScience. (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/spider-venom-could-help-save-brains-after-strokes/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Telecommunications: Interruptions of Telephone Service, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.E. Ringberg, Daily life at Cerro León, an Early Intermediate period highland settlement in the Moche Valley, Peru, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2012.

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

[1]

J. Wagner, Wealth of Experience on the Mets’ Roster Comes With a Painful Cost, New York Times. (2017) SP5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Ecological Genetics and Genomics
Abbreviation	Ecol. Genet. Genom.
ISSN (print)	2405-9854
Scope

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