How to format your references using the Genes to Cells citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Genes to Cells. 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	Download the output style file
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

Stanley, H.E. (2000). Freezing by heating. Nature 404, 718–719.

A journal article with 2 authors

Junttila, M.R., & de Sauvage, F.J. (2013). Influence of tumour micro-environment heterogeneity on therapeutic response. Nature 501, 346–354.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lutolf, M.P., Gilbert, P.M., & Blau, H.M. (2009). Designing materials to direct stem-cell fate. Nature 462, 433–441.

A journal article with 15 or more authors

Hosseini, T., Flores-Vivian, I., Sobolev, K., & Kouklin, N. (2013). Concrete embedded dye-synthesized photovoltaic solar cell. Sci. Rep. 3, 2727.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coe, J.T. (2000). Unlikely Victory: How General Electric Succeeded in the Chemical Industry (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Golden, C.J. (2016). The Intercorrelation of Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD in Neuropsychological Evaluations (Cham: Springer International Publishing).

A chapter in an edited book

Gronenborn, A.M. (2007). Anything Goes – Protein Structural Polymorphism. In Structure and Biophysics – New Technologies for Current Challenges in Biology and Beyond, J. Puglisi, ed. (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), pp. 41–47.

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 to Cells.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Normal Skin Contains High Number Of Cancer-Linked Mutations (IFLScience).

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 (1999). Domestic Aviation: Effects of Changes in How Airline Tickets Are Sold (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Faynblut, V. (2016). College access: A case study of Latino charter school students and their K-16 pathways. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University.

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

de la MERCED, M.J. (2017). Walmart to Acquire Bonobos for $310 Million. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stanley, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Junttila & de Sauvage, 2013; Stanley, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Junttila & de Sauvage, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Hosseini et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Genes to Cells
Abbreviation	Genes Cells
ISSN (online)	1365-2443
Scope	Cell Biology Genetics General Medicine