How to format your references using the Gene Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Gene Reports. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Price, C., 2000. Evidence for a link between global lightning activity and upper tropospheric water vapour. Nature 406, 290–293.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stappenbeck, T.S., Miyoshi, H., 2009. The role of stromal stem cells in tissue regeneration and wound repair. Science 324, 1666–1669.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tahir, M., Sabeeh, K., Schwingenschlögl, U., 2013. Quantum capacitance of an ultrathin topological insulator film in a magnetic field. Sci. Rep. 3, 1261.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ben-Chaim, Y., Chanda, B., Dascal, N., Bezanilla, F., Parnas, I., Parnas, H., 2006. Movement of “gating charge” is coupled to ligand binding in a G-protein-coupled receptor. Nature 444, 106–109.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Young, S., Bramham, J., 2012. Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for ADHD in Adolescents and Adults. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Karagiannis, D., Mayr, H.C., Mylopoulos, J. (Eds.), 2016. Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling: Concepts, Methods and Tools. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Amey, R.C., Schleicher, T., Slinn, J., Lewis, M., Macdonald, H., Neill, S.J., Spencer-Phillips, P.T.N., 2008. Proteomic analysis of a compatible interaction between Pisum sativum (pea) and the downy mildew pathogen Peronospora viciae, in: Lebeda, A., Spencer-Phillips, Peter T. N., Cooke, B.M. (Eds.), The Downy Mildews - Genetics, Molecular Biology and Control. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 41–55.

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 Reports.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2015. Giant, Tubular Creature Caught On Camera Under The Sea [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/giant-tubular-creature-under-sea/ (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, 1986. University Finances: Research Revenues and Expenditures (No. 130998). 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

Smith, B.L., 2017. A Qualitative Study of Veteran Students’ Perspectives of Their Academic Experiences (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Smith, B., 2017. Why BuzzFeed Published the Dossier. New York Times A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Price, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Price, 2000; Stappenbeck and Miyoshi, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Stappenbeck and Miyoshi, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Ben-Chaim et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Gene Reports
Abbreviation	Gene Rep.
ISSN (print)	2452-0144
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