How to format your references using the Gen BioTechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Gen BioTechnology (GENBIO). 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

Lea DW. Oceans. Not so permanent El Niño. Science 2014;344(6179):52–53.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hsieh-Wilson LC, Griffin ME. Chemistry. Improving biologic drugs via total chemical synthesis. Science 2013;342(6164):1332–1333.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rohr RP, Saavedra S, Bascompte J. Ecological networks. On the structural stability of mutualistic systems. Science 2014;345(6195):1253497.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Revyakin A, Liu C, Ebright RH, et al. Abortive initiation and productive initiation by RNA polymerase involve DNA scrunching. Science 2006;314(5802):1139–1143.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lenk R, Lenk C. Practical Lighting Design With LEDs. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2011.

An edited book

Das BK, (ed). Positron Emission Tomography: A Guide for Clinicians. Springer India: New Delhi; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Cammaerts B, Bruter M, Banaji S, et al. Youth Participation in European Policymaking: Representation and Limits to Participation. In: Youth Participation in Democratic Life: Stories of Hope and Disillusion. (Bruter M, Banaji S, Harrison S, et al. eds) Palgrave Macmillan UK: London; 2016; pp. 83–104.

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 Gen BioTechnology.

Blog post

Andrews R. Two Species Of North American Wolf Just Disappeared Overnight. IFLScience; 2016. [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office. Screening Partnership Program: TSA Can Benefit from Improved Cost Estimates. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Emmerling-Baker D. A Qualitative Interpretive Phenomenological Study of K5 Teacher Perceptions of Classroom Empathy Instruction. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University: Scottsdale, AZ; 2017.

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

LaFRANIERE S, Porat D, Armendariz A. Unending but Unheard, the Echo of Gun Violence. New York Times 2016;A1.

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	Gen BioTechnology
ISSN (print)	2768-1556
ISSN (online)	2768-1572
Scope