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

Smith K (2010) Treatment frontiers. Nature 466:S15-8

A journal article with 2 authors

Kleckner D, Bouwmeester D (2006) Sub-kelvin optical cooling of a micromechanical resonator. Nature 444:75–78

A journal article with 3 authors

Nielsen SB, Stephenson R, Thomsen E (2007) Dynamics of Mid-Palaeocene North Atlantic rifting linked with European intra-plate deformations. Nature 450:1071–1074

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mueller CA, Broz P, Müller SA, et al (2005) The V-antigen of Yersinia forms a distinct structure at the tip of injectisome needles. Science 310:674–676

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Levin MA, Kalal TT (2005) Improving Product Reliability. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Bull L, Kovacs T (eds) (2005) Foundations of Learning Classifier Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Soergel W (2012) Categories of Harish-Chandra Modules. In: Joseph A, Melnikov A, Penkov I (eds) Highlights in Lie Algebraic Methods. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, pp 103–122

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

Davis J (2015) Humane Shark Deterrent Prevents 90% of Encounters. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/human-shark-deterrent-prevents-90-encounters/. 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 (1998) Aviation Security: Implementation of Recommendations Is Under Way, but Completion Will Take Several Years. 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

Meng W (2014) Synthesis and design of microwave wideband filters and components. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Loomis G (2012) Opera of the Soul, Sparsely Staged. New York Times 0

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Kleckner and Bouwmeester 2006; Smith 2010).

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

Two authors: (Kleckner and Bouwmeester 2006)
Three or more authors: (Mueller et al. 2005)

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