How to format your references using the Genetica citation style

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

Check Hayden E (2014) The automated lab. Nature 516:131–132

A journal article with 2 authors

Alsdorf DE, Lettenmaier DP (2003) Geophysics. Tracking fresh water from space. Science 301:1491–1494

A journal article with 3 authors

Scholl JA, Koh AL, Dionne JA (2012) Quantum plasmon resonances of individual metallic nanoparticles. Nature 483:421–427

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kamanu TKK, Radovanovic A, Archer JAC, Bajic VB (2013) Exploration of miRNA families for hypotheses generation. Sci Rep 3:2940

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnes P (2008) The JCT 05 Standard Building Sub-Contract. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Silva GJ (2005) PID Controllers for Time-Delay Systems. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Betzler N, Uhlmann J (2008) Parameterized Complexity of Candidate Control in Elections and Related Digraph Problems. In: Yang B, Du D-Z, Wang CA (eds) Combinatorial Optimization and Applications: Second International Conference, COCOA 2008, St. John’s, NL, Canada, August 21-24, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 43–53

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 Genetica.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Watch: Snake Vomits Up Another LIVE SNAKE After Being Startled. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/snake-swallows-then-regurgitates-fellow-snake-amazingly-still-alive/. 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 (1986) Results of EDP Auditor Reader Survey on Microcomputers. 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

Norris C (2014) What is Lost Along the Way. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Meacham J (2017) The Man to Blame for Our Culture of Fame. New York Times BR17

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check Hayden 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Alsdorf and Lettenmaier 2003; Check Hayden 2014).

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

Two authors: (Alsdorf and Lettenmaier 2003)
Three or more authors: (Kamanu et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Genetica
Abbreviation	Genetica
ISSN (print)	0016-6707
ISSN (online)	1573-6857
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Insect Science Plant Science Genetics General Medicine