How to format your references using the Genes citation style

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

Cohen, J.E. Make Secondary Education Universal. Nature 2008, 456, 572–573.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zegerman, P.; Diffley, J.F.X. Checkpoint-Dependent Inhibition of DNA Replication Initiation by Sld3 and Dbf4 Phosphorylation. Nature 2010, 467, 474–478.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pawlowski, B.; Dunbar, R.I.; Lipowicz, A. Tall Men Have More Reproductive Success. Nature 2000, 403, 156.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wesolowski, A.; Stresman, G.; Eagle, N.; Stevenson, J.; Owaga, C.; Marube, E.; Bousema, T.; Drakeley, C.; Cox, J.; Buckee, C.O. Quantifying Travel Behavior for Infectious Disease Research: A Comparison of Data from Surveys and Mobile Phones. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5678.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bauldry, W.C. Introduction to Real Analysis; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2009; ISBN 9781118164419.

An edited book

Bonnelle, C. Rare-Earths and Actinides in High Energy Spectroscopy; Spector, N., Ed.; Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2015; ISBN 9789048128785.

A chapter in an edited book

Langill, C.S.; Muller, L. Curating Lively Objects: Post-Disciplinary Affordances for Media Art Exhibition. In Curating the Digital: Space for Art and Interaction; England, D., Schiphorst, T., Bryan-Kinns, N., Eds.; Springer Series on Cultural Computing; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 31–49 ISBN 9783319287201.

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 Genes.

Blog post

Davis, J. Virus Found To Make Plants Smell More Attractive To Foraging Bees Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/virus-found-to-make-plants-smell-more-attractive-to-foraging-bees/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Savings Possible by Buying Automatic Data Processing Equipment or by Leasing It From Commercial Leasing Firms; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1970;

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Mason, M.C. A Heart Like a Fakir’s The Life and Times of General Sir James Abbott, KCB. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 2013.

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

Sisario, B. Sprint Throws a Cash Lifeline to Struggling Tidal. New York Times 2017, B3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Genes
Abbreviation	Genes (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2073-4425
Scope	Genetics Genetics(clinical)