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

Taylor, T., 2001. Explanatory tyranny. Nature 411, 419.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sanchez, P.A., Swaminathan, M.S., 2005. Public health. Cutting world hunger in half. Science 307, 357–359.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yi, C., Wei, S., Hendrey, G., 2014. Warming climate extends dryness-controlled areas of terrestrial carbon sequestration. Sci. Rep. 4, 5472.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Aono, N., Sutani, T., Tomonaga, T., Mochida, S., Yanagida, M., 2002. Cnd2 has dual roles in mitotic condensation and interphase. Nature 417, 197–202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Picard, F., Tanguy, C., 2016. Innovations and Techno-ecological Transition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Grgic, M., Delac, K., Ghanbari, M. (Eds.), 2009. Recent Advances in Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Tam, A.L., 2011. Mediastinal Biopsy, in: Gervais, D.A., Sabharwal, T. (Eds.), Interventional Radiology Procedures in Biopsy and Drainage. Springer, London, pp. 31–45.

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., 2015. How To Build A City Fit For 50℃ Heatwaves [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-build-city-fit-50-heatwaves/ (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, 2000. Aviation Competition: Issues Related to the Proposed United Airlines-US Airways Merger (No. GAO-01-212). 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

Cruz, S., 2014. Keeping families together: A grant proposal (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

Billard, M., 2010. British Invasion, Only This Time It’s in Retail. New York Times E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Taylor, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Sanchez and Swaminathan, 2005; Taylor, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Sanchez and Swaminathan, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Aono et al., 2002)

About the journal

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