How to format your references using the Gene citation style

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

Musacchio, A., 2010. Molecular biology. Surfing chromosomes (and Survivin). Science 330, 183–184.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bishopp, A., Bennett, M.J., 2015. Plant biology: Seeing the wood and the trees. Nature 517, 558–559.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pesaran, B., Nelson, M.J., Andersen, R.A., 2008. Free choice activates a decision circuit between frontal and parietal cortex. Nature 453, 406–409.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fan, Z., Sun, Y., Di Chen, Tay, D., Chen, W., Deng, C.X., Fu, J., 2013. Acoustic tweezing cytometry for live-cell subcellular modulation of intracellular cytoskeleton contractility. Sci. Rep. 3, 2176.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Voldman, S.H., 2006. ESD. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Jacob, B.P., Ramshaw, B. (Eds.), 2013. The SAGES Manual of Hernia Repair. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Antoine, R., Dugourd, P., 2013. UV-Visible Activation of Biomolecular Ions, in: Polfer, N.C., Dugourd, P. (Eds.), Laser Photodissociation and Spectroscopy of Mass-Separated Biomolecular Ions, Lecture Notes in Chemistry. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 93–116.

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 Gene.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2015. Why Was A Child’s “5+5+5=15” Answer Marked As Incorrect? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1988. Tactical Airlift: Observations Concerning the Air Force’s C-27 Proposal (No. NSIAD-88-124). 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

Wansapura, A.N., 2010. The role of alpha sodium,potassium-ATPase isoforms in mediating cardiac hypertrophy in response to endogenous cardiotonic steroids (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, 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

Barron, J., 2017. Mystery of the Hamilton Painting at City Hall: Lost, Stolen or Never There? New York Times A19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Musacchio, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Bishopp and Bennett, 2015; Musacchio, 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Bishopp and Bennett, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Fan et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Gene
Abbreviation	Gene
ISSN (print)	0378-1119
Scope	Genetics General Medicine