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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Vogel, G., 2000. DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY: Brain Cells Turning Over a New Leaf. Science 289, 1666a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Petro, J.B., Relman, D.A., 2003. Public health. Understanding threats to scientific openness. Science 302, 1898.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ito, T., Woloszyn, M., Mazloff, M., 2010. Anthropogenic carbon dioxide transport in the Southern Ocean driven by Ekman flow. Nature 463, 80–83.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cordaux, R., Deepa, E., Vishwanathan, H., Stoneking, M., 2004. Genetic evidence for the demic diffusion of agriculture to India. Science 304, 1125.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hochberg, Z., 2011. Evo-Devo of Child Growth. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hayashi, N., 2006. Asymptotics for Dissipative Nonlinear Equations, Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Marques de Sá, J.P., Silva, L.M.A., Santos, J.M.F., Alexandre, L.A., 2013. MEE with Discrete Errors, in: Silva, L.M.A., Santos, J.M.F., Alexandre, L.A. (Eds.), Minimum Error Entropy Classification, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 93–120.

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

Fang, J., 2014. Float through a celestial snow angel [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/float-through-celestial-snow-angel/ (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, 2003. Flexibility Demonstration Programs: Education Needs to Better Target Program Information (No. GAO-03-691). 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

Saurage-Altenloh, S.M., 2017. The Measured Influence of Supplier CSR on Brand Performance Expectations in B2B Relationships (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Vecsey, G., 2010. Cameras, Action and Even Lights. New York Times D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vogel, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Petro and Relman, 2003; Vogel, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Petro and Relman, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Cordaux et al., 2004)

About the journal

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