How to format your references using the Gene: X citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Gene: X. 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

Mueller, K., 2013. Inflammation. Inflammation’s yin-yang. Introduction. Science 339, 155.

A journal article with 2 authors

Norvell, A., McMahon, S.B., 2010. Cell biology. Rise of the rival. Science 327, 964–965.

A journal article with 3 authors

Körtner, G., Brigham, R.M., Geiser, F., 2000. Winter torpor in a large bird. Nature 407, 318.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Guo, H.F., Tong, J., Hannan, F., Luo, L., Zhong, Y., 2000. A neurofibromatosis-1-regulated pathway is required for learning in Drosophila. Nature 403, 895–898.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mohos, F.Á., 2017. Confectionery and Chocolate Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Hazelwood, R.R. (Ed.), 2015. Wives of Child Molesters Within the Family, SpringerBriefs in Psychology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Quan, S., 2010. Factors Affecting Consumer Intentions to Acceptance Banking Services in China, in: Luo, Q. (Ed.), Advances in Wireless Networks and Information Systems, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 27–34.

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: X.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2016. Explained: Why A Reboot Is The Go-To Computer Fix [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/explained-why-a-reboot-is-the-go-to-computer-fix/ (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, 1989. ADP Modernization: IRS’ Automated Examination System--Troubled Past, Uncertain Future (No. IMTEC-89-54). 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

Arnold, J.M., 2009. Accountability in British Columbia: A case study connecting policy and practice (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Chapman, M.M., 2015. This Time, Fiat Chrysler Workers Approve Contract. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mueller, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Mueller, 2013; Norvell and McMahon, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Norvell and McMahon, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Guo et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Gene: X
ISSN (print)	2590-1583
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