How to format your references using the Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 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

Malissen B (2003) Immunology. Switching off TCR signaling. Science 302:1162–1163

A journal article with 2 authors

Beckmann R, Herrmann JM (2015) Structural biology. Mitoribosome oddities. Science 348:288–289

A journal article with 3 authors

Nateri AS, Spencer-Dene B, Behrens A (2005) Interaction of phosphorylated c-Jun with TCF4 regulates intestinal cancer development. Nature 437:281–285

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bachilo SM, Strano MS, Kittrell C, et al (2002) Structure-assigned optical spectra of single-walled carbon nanotubes. Science 298:2361–2366

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mitra A (2008) Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ketonen LM (2005) Pediatric Brain and Spine: An Atlas of MRI and Spectroscopy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Joseph B (2015) The Bowed Tibia. In: Robb J, Loder RT, Torode I (eds) Paediatric Orthopaedic Diagnosis: Asking the Right Questions. Springer India, New Delhi, pp 33–44

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 Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) Discovery Of Cosmic Web Feeding A Protogalaxy Could Reveal How Galaxies Form. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/mystery-how-galaxies-formed-possibly-solved-discovery-cosmic-web-feeding-protogalaxy/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1995) Amtrak: Early Progress Made in Implementing Strategic and Business Plan, but Obstacles Remain. 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

Necaise KW (2012) Effects of soybean-derived phytoestrogens on reproductive tract development in neonatal male and female pigs: Animal model for the human infant. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State 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

Becker JO, Goldman A, Apuzzo M (2017) Emails Disclose Trump Son’s Glee at Russian Offer. 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 (Malissen 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Malissen 2003; Beckmann and Herrmann 2015).

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

Two authors: (Beckmann and Herrmann 2015)
Three or more authors: (Bachilo et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution
Abbreviation	Genet. Resour. Crop Evol.
ISSN (print)	0925-9864
ISSN (online)	1573-5109
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science Genetics