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

Robinson, Ken. 2006. “Personal Finance. Summer Salary and Other Windfalls.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 313 (5792): 1455.

A journal article with 2 authors

Herrera, Ana M., and Martin J. Cohn. 2014. “Embryonic Origin and Compartmental Organization of the External Genitalia.” Scientific Reports 4 (November): 6896.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reiner, Steven L., Federica Sallusto, and Antonio Lanzavecchia. 2007. “Division of Labor with a Workforce of One: Challenges in Specifying Effector and Memory T Cell Fate.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 317 (5838): 622–625.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Prokhorenko, Valentyn I., Andrea M. Nagy, Stephen A. Waschuk, Leonid S. Brown, Robert R. Birge, and R. J. Dwayne Miller. 2006. “Coherent Control of Retinal Isomerization in Bacteriorhodopsin.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 313 (5791): 1257–1261.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Law, Ho. 2013. The Psychology of Coaching, Mentoring and Learning. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Gupta, Rakesh Kumar, Wim Reybroeck, Johan W. van Veen, and Anuradha Gupta, eds. 2014. Beekeeping for Poverty Alleviation and Livelihood Security: Vol. 1: Technological Aspects of Beekeeping. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Broch Johnsen, Einar, Olaf Owe, Rudolf Schlatte, and Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa. 2011. “Validating Timed Models of Deployment Components with Parametric Concurrency.” In Formal Verification of Object-Oriented Software: International Conference, FoVeOOS 2010, Paris, France, June 28-30, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, edited by Bernhard Beckert and Claude Marché, 46–60. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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. 2014. “Radioactive Boar Roam The Forests Of Germany.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/wild-boar-roaming-forests-germany-are-too-radioactive-eat/.

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. 2005. National Airspace System: Initiatives to Reduce Flight Delays and Enhance Capacity Are Ongoing but Challenges Remain. GAO-05-755T. 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

Frias-Martinez, Vanessa. 2008. “Behavior-Based Admission and Access Control for Network Security.” Doctoral dissertation, New York, NY: Columbia University.

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

Crow, Kelly. 2003. “A Noble Little Troupe Faces A Cruel Foe: The Rent.” New York Times, February 16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robinson 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Robinson 2006; Herrera and Cohn 2014).

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

Two authors: (Herrera and Cohn 2014)
Three authors: (Reiner, Sallusto, and Lanzavecchia 2007)
4 or more authors: (Prokhorenko et al. 2006)

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)