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

de Massy B. Human genetics. Hidden features of human hotspots. Science 2014; 346:808–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Meldrum DR, Holl MR. Tech.Sight. Microfluidics. Microscale bioanalytical systems. Science 2002; 297:1197–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Werfel J, Petersen K, Nagpal R. Designing collective behavior in a termite-inspired robot construction team. Science 2014; 343:754–8.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Beeson TD, Mastracchio A, Hong J-B, Ashton K, Macmillan DWC. Enantioselective organocatalysis using SOMO activation. Science 2007; 316:582–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ma AD, Roberts HR, Escobar MA. Hemophilia and Hemostasis. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Uchegbu IF, Schätzlein AG, Cheng WP, Lalatsa A, editors. Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Antoniou V, Morley J, Haklay M (muki). Tiled Vectors: A Method for Vector Transmission over the Web. In: Carswell JD, Fotheringham AS, McArdle G, editors. Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems: 9th International Symposium, W2GIS 2009, Maynooth, Ireland, December 7-8, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. page 56–71.

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

Andrew D. Facebook Has a Mysterious Team Working On Tech That Sounds A Lot Like Mind Reading [Internet]. IFLScience2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/facebook-has-a-mysterious-team-working-on-tech-that-sounds-a-lot-like-mind-reading/

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. Meeting the Aviation Challenges of the 1990s: Experts Define Key Problems and Identify Emerging Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Choi Y-J. Function of Commissureless and Related Genes in Drosophila Neural Development. 2003;

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

Feuer A, Rashbaum WK. Family Past Heightens Enigma of Judge’s Death. New York Times2017; :A20.

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