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 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

Altman, E., 2007. Physics. Critical Insights. Science 315, 1504–1505.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nelson, E.C., Braun, P.V., 2007. Chemistry. Enhancing colloids through the surface. Science 318, 924–925.

A journal article with 3 authors

Levin, E.J., Quick, M., Zhou, M., 2009. Crystal structure of a bacterial homologue of the kidney urea transporter. Nature 462, 757–761.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mainland, J.D., Bremner, E.A., Young, N., Johnson, B.N., Khan, R.M., Bensafi, M., Sobel, N., 2002. Olfactory plasticity: one nostril knows what the other learns. Nature 419, 802.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bosq, D., Blanke, D., 2007. Inference and Prediction in Large Dimensions: Bosq/Inference and Prediction in Large Dimensions, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Yamanaka, R. (Ed.), 2012. Glioma: Immunotherapeutic Approaches, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Griesbach, U., Malkowsky, I.M., Waldvogel, S.R., 2010. Green Electroorganic Synthesis Using BDD Electrodes, in: Comninellis, C., Chen, G. (Eds.), Electrochemistry for the Environment. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 125–141.

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

Andrews, R., 2017. Scientists Finally Unravel Hawaii’s Bizarre Origin Story [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-finally-unravel-hawaiis-bizarre-origin-story/ (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, 1992. Aviation Safety: Progress on FAA Safety Indicators Program Slow and Challenges Remain (No. IMTEC-92-57). 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

Clendening, R.J., 2009. A structured methodology for unifying functional analysis with systems analysis to enhance system behavior knowledge (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Burghardt, L.F., 2006. An Animal Sanctuary Is Under Pressure to Move. New York Times 14NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Altman, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Altman, 2007; Nelson and Braun, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Nelson and Braun, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Mainland et al., 2002)

About the journal

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