How to format your references using the Gene Expression Patterns citation style

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

Lawler, A., 2011. Archaeology. Does North America hold the roots of Mesoamerican civilization? Science 334, 1620–1621.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ausländer, S., Fussenegger, M., 2014. Synthetic biology: Toehold gene switches make big footprints. Nature 516, 333–334.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu, B., Ooi, T.L., He, Z.J., 2004. Perceiving distance accurately by a directional process of integrating ground information. Nature 428, 73–77.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

van der Marel, D., Molegraaf, H.J.A., Zaanen, J., Nussinov, Z., Carbone, F., Damascelli, A., Eisaki, H., Greven, M., Kes, P.H., Li, M., 2003. Quantum critical behaviour in a high-T(c) superconductor. Nature 425, 271–274.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wesley, L.D., 2010. Geotechnical Engineering in Residual Soils. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Faridah-Hanum, I., Latiff, A., Hakeem, K.R., Ozturk, M. (Eds.), 2014. Mangrove Ecosystems of Asia: Status, Challenges and Management Strategies. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Borchani, H., Chaouachi, M., Ben Amor, N., 2007. Learning Causal Bayesian Networks from Incomplete Observational Data and Interventions, in: Mellouli, K. (Ed.), Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty: 9th European Conference, ECSQARU 2007, Hammamet, Tunisia, October 31 - November 2, 2007. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 17–29.

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 Expression Patterns.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. Neonicotinoids Linked To Wild Bee And Butterfly Declines In Europe And US [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/neonicotinoids-linked-to-wild-bee-and-butterfly-declines-in-europe-and-us/ (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, 1981. National Research Centers Supported by NSF (No. PAD-81-79). 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

Lai, J.-P., 2008. Phosphatase and Tensin Homolog Deleted on Chromosome Ten (PTEN) As A Molecular Target in Lung Epithelial Wound Repair and Protection (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

Baker, L., 2007. A Canadian Condo Boom. New York Times 1111.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lawler, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ausländer and Fussenegger, 2014; Lawler, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Ausländer and Fussenegger, 2014)
Three or more authors: (van der Marel et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Gene Expression Patterns
Abbreviation	Gene Expr. Patterns
ISSN (print)	1567-133X
Scope	Developmental Biology Genetics Molecular Biology