How to format your references using the Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. 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

[1]

Smaglik P. Empire building: Vienna. Nature 2002;416:4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wang LV, Hu S. Photoacoustic tomography: in vivo imaging from organelles to organs. Science 2012;335:1458–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sidhu ABS, Verdier-Pinard D, Fidock DA. Chloroquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites conferred by pfcrt mutations. Science 2002;298:210–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Vegiopoulos A, Müller-Decker K, Strzoda D, Schmitt I, Chichelnitskiy E, Ostertag A, et al. Cyclooxygenase-2 controls energy homeostasis in mice by de novo recruitment of brown adipocytes. Science 2010;328:1158–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Minns P, Elliott I. FSM-Based Digital Design Using Verilog HDL. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Dolev S, editor. Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks: 5th International Workshop, ALGOSENSORS 2009, Rhodes, Greece, July 10-11, 2009. Revised Selected Papers. vol. 5804. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Trayanova N, Plank G. Bidomain Model of Defibrillation. In: Efimov IR, Kroll MW, Tchou PJ, editors. Cardiac Bioelectric Therapy: Mechanisms and Practical Implications, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009, p. 85–109.

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 Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. CDC Warns Ebola Outbreak Could Top 1 Million By January. IFLScience 2014.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Space Transportation: Progress of the X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Berkow K. Importance of Effective Leadership for the Success of Mergers and Acquisitions. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2017.

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

[1]

Grynbaum MM. Turning Up the Pro-Trump Volume. New York Times 2017:B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
Abbreviation	J. Genet. Eng. Biotechnol.
ISSN (print)	1687-157X
Scope	Biotechnology Genetics