How to format your references using the Transcription citation style

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

Basko D. Applied physics. A photothermoelectric effect in graphene. Science 2011; 334:610–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen D, Savidge T. BIOPHYSICS. Comment on “Extreme electric fields power catalysis in the active site of ketosteroid isomerase.” Science 2015; 349:936.

A journal article with 3 authors

De Moraes CM, Mescher MC, Tumlinson JH. Caterpillar-induced nocturnal plant volatiles repel conspecific females. Nature 2001; 410:577–80.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zhao J, Chu W, Guo L, Wang Z, Yang J, Liu W, Cheng Y, Xu Z. Terahertz imaging with sub-wavelength resolution by femtosecond laser filament in air. Sci Rep 2014; 4:3880.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mallée R, Fuchs W, Eligehausen R. Design of Fastenings for Use in Concrete - the CEN/TS 1992-4 Provisions. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

Belli L, De Filippi P, editors. Net Neutrality Compendium: Human Rights, Free Competition and the Future of the Internet. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Tufail M, Coenen F, Mu T, Rind SJ. Mining Movement Patterns from Video Data to Inform Multi-agent Based Simulation. In: Cao L, Zeng Y, An B, Symeonidis AL, Gorodetsky V, Coenen F, Yu PS, editors. Agents and Data Mining Interaction: 10th International Workshop, ADMI 2014, Paris, France, May 5-9, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. page 38–51.

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 Transcription.

Blog post

Davis J. Restoration Of Farmland Can Be Directed By Inoculating The Land With Different Soils [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/restoration-of-farmland-can-be-directed-by-inoculating-the-land-with-different-soils/

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. Survival of Higher Education in the Years Ahead. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kory R. Development of an educational seminar for college female athletes, coaches, athletic directors and parents on the female athlete triad. 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

St. John Kelly E. Keeping Outsiders Outside. New York Times1998; :149.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Transcription
Abbreviation	Transcription
ISSN (print)	2154-1264
ISSN (online)	2154-1272
Scope	Biochemistry Biotechnology Genetics