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

Burke, D., 2000. Time for voices to be raised. Nature 405, 509.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pophristic, V., Goodman, L., 2001. Hyperconjugation not steric repulsion leads to the staggered structure of ethane. Nature 411, 565–568.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dixson, D.L., Abrego, D., Hay, M.E., 2014. Reef ecology. Chemically mediated behavior of recruiting corals and fishes: a tipping point that may limit reef recovery. Science 345, 892–897.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kovac, J.M., Leitch, E.M., Pryke, C., Carlstrom, J.E., Halverson, N.W., Holzapfel, W.L., 2002. Detection of polarization in the cosmic microwave background using DASI. Degree Angular Scale Interferometer. Nature 420, 772–787.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaul, S., Ali, F., Janakiram, S., Wattenström, B., 2008. Business Models for Sustainable Telecoms Growth in Developing Economies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Futatsugi, K., Jouannaud, J.-P., Meseguer, J. (Eds.), 2006. Algebra, Meaning, and Computation: Essays dedicated to Joseph A. Goguen on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Langbein, J., 2009. The Transnationalization of Change in Economic Institutions: The Case of Industrial Standards Regulations in Ukraine, in: Bruszt, L., Holzhacker, R. (Eds.), The Transnationalization of Economies, States, and Civil Societies: New Challenges for Governance in Europe. Springer US, New York, NY, pp. 107–133.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Man-Eating Nile Crocodiles Have Been Found In Florida [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/man-eating-nile-crocodiles-have-been-found-florida/ (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, 1980. Review of the Battlefield Exploitation and Target Acquisition System (No. LCD-80-38). 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

Hendry, M., 2014. The Lonely Nineteenth Century: Loneliness and the Female Protagonist in the Victorian Novel (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Davey, M., Walsh, M.W., 2013. Chicago Sees Pension Crisis Drawing Near. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Burke, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Burke, 2000; Pophristic and Goodman, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Pophristic and Goodman, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kovac et al., 2002)

About the journal

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