How to format your references using the New Genetics and Society citation style

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

Podolak, Morris. 2007. “Planetary Science. The Case of Saturn’s Spin.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 317 (5843): 1330–1331.

A journal article with 2 authors

Catterall, William A., and John D. Scott. 2010. “Retrospective. Edwin G. Krebs (1918-2009).” Science (New York, N.Y.) 327 (5965): 537.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prokopenko, Alexander A., Eugene B. Karabanov, and Douglas F. Williams. 2002. “Age of Long Sediment Cores from Lake Baikal.” Nature 415 (6875): 976.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Takaba, Hiroyuki, Takeshi Imai, Shoji Miki, Yasuyuki Morishita, Akihiro Miyashita, Naoko Ishikawa, Hirofumi Nishizumi, and Hitoshi Sakano. 2013. “A Major Allogenic Leukocyte Antigen in the Agnathan Hagfish.” Scientific Reports 3: 1716.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopp, Vollrath. 2000. Grundlagen Der Life Sciences. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Berthod, Alain, ed. 2010. Chiral Recognition in Separation Methods: Mechanisms and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Błocki, Zbigniew. 2014. “A Lower Bound for the Bergman Kernel and the Bourgain-Milman Inequality.” In Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis: Israel Seminar (GAFA) 2011-2013, edited by Bo’az Klartag and Emanuel Milman, 53–63. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 New Genetics and Society.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “July Was The Hottest Month Since Records Began.” IFLScience. 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. 1988. Space Exploration: NASA’s Deep Space Missions Are Experiencing Long Delays. NSIAD-88-128BR. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ghafoori, Elyar. 2014. “Wavelet Transform and Neural Network.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Grynbaum, Michael M. 2017. “Inaugural All Its Own Brings Astonishment and Awe to Television.” New York Times, January 20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Podolak 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Podolak 2007; Catterall and Scott 2010).

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

Two authors: (Catterall and Scott 2010)
Three authors: (Prokopenko, Karabanov, and Williams 2002)
4 or more authors: (Takaba et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	New Genetics and Society
Abbreviation	New Genet. Soc.
ISSN (print)	1463-6778
ISSN (online)	1469-9915
Scope	Genetics Health Policy Issues, ethics and legal aspects Health(social science)