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

Goldston, D., 2007. Political climate. Nature 450, 333.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reczek, C.R., Chandel, N.S., 2015. CANCER. Revisiting vitamin C and cancer. Science 350, 1317–1318.

A journal article with 3 authors

Leizerson, I., Lipson, S.G., Lyushnin, A.V., 2003. Wetting properties: When larger drops evaporate faster. Nature 422, 395–396.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Peters, C., Bayer, M.J., Bühler, S., Andersen, J.S., Mann, M., Mayer, A., 2001. Trans-complex formation by proteolipid channels in the terminal phase of membrane fusion. Nature 409, 581–588.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ming, D., Glasser, D., Hildebrandt, D., Glasser, B., Metzer, M., 2016. Attainable Region Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gaetan, C., 2008. Modélisation et statistique spatiales, Mathématiques & Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, Y., Shyy, J.Y.-J., Chien, S., 2008. Fluorescence Live-Cell Imaging: Principles and Applications in Mechanobiology, in: Artmann, G.M., Chien, S. (Eds.), Bioengineering in Cell and Tissue Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 65–84.

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, E., 2014. World’s Most Powerful Deep Space Rocket Set To Launch In 2018 [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/worlds-most-powerful-deep-space-rocket-set-launch-2018/ (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. Comments on H.R. 5103, Mineta letter (No. CBD-2-63). 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

McDougal, S., 2013. Military Town: Part One (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Herrman, J., 2017. Trust Bust. New York Times BR13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Goldston, 2007; Reczek and Chandel, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Reczek and Chandel, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Peters et al., 2001)

About the journal

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