How to format your references using the Heredity citation style

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

Hovnanian JS (2000). Let Armenia show why it’s the place for Sesame. Nature 405: 508.

A journal article with 2 authors

Noor E, Milo R (2012). Evolution. Efficiency in evolutionary trade-offs. Science 336: 1114–1115.

A journal article with 3 authors

Flores I, Cayuela ML, Blasco MA (2005). Effects of telomerase and telomere length on epidermal stem cell behavior. Science 309: 1253–1256.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gittins DI, Bethell D, Schiffrin DJ, Nichols RJ (2000). A nanometre-scale electronic switch consisting of a metal cluster and redox-addressable groups. Nature 408: 67–69.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tschirhart M, Bielefeld W (2012). Managing Nonprofit Organizations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: San Francisco.

An edited book

Zhou M-M (Ed.) (2015). Histone Recognition. Springer International Publishing: Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Simonet A (2011). Automatic Production of an Operational Information System from a Domain Ontology Enriched with Behavioral Properties. In: Bellatreche L, Mota Pinto F (eds) Model and Data Engineering: First International Conference, MEDI 2011, Óbidos, Portugal, September 28-30, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 4–17.

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 Heredity.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015). Chimps And Gorillas Desperately Need Ebola Vaccine Too – Virus Has Wiped Out A Third Of Them. 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 (2007). Next Generation Air Transportation System: Progress and Challenges in Planning and Implementing the Transformation of the National Airspace System. 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

Tuinenga JM (2010). John Corigliano’s Sonata for violin and piano: An analysis of context, structure, and style. Doctoral dissertation Thesis, 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

Williams J (2017). The Teacher Learns She’s a Student, Too. New York Times: C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hovnanian, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hovnanian, 2000; Noor and Milo, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Noor and Milo, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Gittins et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Heredity
Abbreviation	Heredity (Edinb.)
ISSN (print)	0018-067X
ISSN (online)	1365-2540
Scope	Genetics Genetics(clinical)