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]

Burbine TH. Planetary science. Identifying ancient asteroids. Science 2008;320:457–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hemmer P, Wrachtrup J. Physics. Where is my quantum computer? Science 2009;324:473–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Young WR, Roberts AJ, Stuhne G. Reproductive pair correlations and the clustering of organisms. Nature 2001;412:328–31.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ozawa S, Murakami M, Kaidzu M, Tada T, Sagiya T, Hatanaka Y, et al. Detection and monitoring of ongoing aseismic slip in the Tokai region, central Japan. Science 2002;298:1009–12.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Box GEP, Luceño A, Paniagua-Quiñones MDC. Statistical Control by Monitoring and Adjustment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Arai E, Kimura F, Goossenaerts J, Shirase K, editors. Knowledge and Skill Chains in Engineering and Manufacturing: Information Infrastructure in the Era of Global Communications Proceedings of the IFIP TC5/WG5.3, WG5.7, WG5.12 Fifth International Working Conference of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing 2002 (DIIDM2002), November 18–20, 2002 in Osaka, Japan. vol. 168. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Fukuda T, Arai F, Nakajima M. Micromanipulation System under Optical Microscope. In: Arai F, Nakajima M, editors. Micro-Nanorobotic Manipulation Systems and Their Applications, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 107–36.

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. Whales Have Unique Voices. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/whales-have-unique-voices/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. IRS Information Systems: Weaknesses Increase Risk of Fraud and Impair Reliability of Management Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Pierre RR. A Phenomenological Study of the Boomerang-Employment Experience of Scientists and Engineers. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2019.

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]

Stewart JB. Trump, the Tax Code and a Loophole for the Rich. New York Times 2016:A1.

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