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

Pain E (2007). Science careers. European programs offer translational training. Science 317: 968–969.

A journal article with 2 authors

Withers P, Neumann GA (2001). Enigmatic northern plains of Mars. Nature 410: 651.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hastings MG, Jarvis JC, Steig EJ (2009). Anthropogenic impacts on nitrogen isotopes of ice-core nitrate. Science 324: 1288.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zerrouki D, Baudry J, Pine D, Chaikin P, Bibette J (2008). Chiral colloidal clusters. Nature 455: 380–382.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety (2000). Guidelines for Process Safety in Outsourced Manufacturing Operations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kingah S, Quiliconi C (Eds.) (2016). Global and Regional Leadership of BRICS Countries, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing: Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Naitoh T (2014). Basic Techniques and Instruments. In: Choi SH, Kasama K (eds) Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 29–35.

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

Fang J (2014). Beards: Too Hip For Their Own Good. 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 (1996). Airport Improvement Program: State Block Grant Pilot Program Is a Success. 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

Capelli AM (2017). The (Un)Balanced Canon: Re-Visioning Feminist Conceptions of Madness and Transgression. Doctoral dissertation Thesis, University of Louisiana.

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

White MJO (2016). Don’t Slap Cuffs on the S.E.C. New York Times: A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pain, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Withers and Neumann, 2001; Pain, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Withers and Neumann, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Zerrouki et al., 2008)

About the journal

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