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

Pettitt, Clare. 2015. “Anthropology: One-Man Multidisciplinarian.” Nature 525 (7569): 319–320.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shoubridge, Eric A., and Timothy Wai. 2008. “Medicine. Sidestepping Mutational Meltdown.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 319 (5865): 914–915.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ota, Kinya G., Shigehiro Kuraku, and Shigeru Kuratani. 2007. “Hagfish Embryology with Reference to the Evolution of the Neural Crest.” Nature 446 (7136): 672–675.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Amrani, Nadia, Robin Ganesan, Stephanie Kervestin, David A. Mangus, Shubhendu Ghosh, and Allan Jacobson. 2004. “A Faux 3’-UTR Promotes Aberrant Termination and Triggers Nonsense-Mediated MRNA Decay.” Nature 432 (7013): 112–118.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Attoh-Okine, Nii O. 2017. Big Data and Differential Privacy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Georgakopoulos, Dimitrios, Norbert Ritter, Boualem Benatallah, Christian Zirpins, George Feuerlicht, Marten Schoenherr, and Hamid R. Motahari-Nezhad, eds. 2007. Service-Oriented Computing ICSOC 2006: 4th International Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, December 4-7, 2006, Workshops Proceedings. Vol. 4652. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Văduva, Sebastian, Victor T. Alistar, Andrew R. Thomas, Călin D. Lupiţu, and Daniel S. Neagoie. 2016. “Management of Risks.” In Moral Leadership in Business: Towards a Business Culture of Integrity, edited by Victor T. Alistar, Andrew R. Thomas, Călin D. Lupiţu, and Daniel S. Neagoie, 77–92. SpringerBriefs in Business. 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. “The Science Of Doping And How Cheating Athletes Pass Drug Tests.” 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. 2014. Small Business Innovation Research: Change in Program Eligibility Has Had Little Impact. GAO-15-68. 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

Van Exel, Leslie M. 2012. “Applying Database Refactoring Techniques to Procedural SQL.” 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

Dynarski, Susan. 2016. “Personalized Tips From a Counselor? That’s Priceless.” New York Times, February 19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pettitt 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Pettitt 2015; Shoubridge and Wai 2008).

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

Two authors: (Shoubridge and Wai 2008)
Three authors: (Ota, Kuraku, and Kuratani 2007)
4 or more authors: (Amrani et al. 2004)

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)