How to format your references using the Transgenic Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transgenic Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Grayson M (2013) Agriculture and drought. Nature 501:S1

A journal article with 2 authors

Frank SA, Nowak MA (2003) Cell biology: Developmental predisposition to cancer. Nature 422:494

A journal article with 3 authors

Vinothkumar KR, Zhu J, Hirst J (2014) Architecture of mammalian respiratory complex I. Nature 515:80–84

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Raghavan S, Manzanillo P, Chan K, et al (2008) Secreted transcription factor controls Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence. Nature 454:717–721

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vassiliou P-CG (2013) Discrete-time Asset Pricing Models in Applied Stochastic Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Frauendiener J, Giulini DJW, Perlick V (eds) (2006) Analytical and Numerical Approaches to Mathematical Relativity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Labbé A, Denoyer A, Baudouin C (2013) Advance in Corneal Imaging. In: Reinhard T, Larkin F (eds) Corneal Disease: Recent Developments in Diagnosis and Therapy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 53–70

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 Transgenic Research.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2014) Man Builds Gun That Folds And Fires Paper Airplanes. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/man-makes-paper-airplane-gun-using-3d-printed-parts/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1999) District of Columbia Public Schools: Audit Confirms Reasonableness of Enrollment Count, but Report’s Presentation Is Unclear. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Satam GC (2010) The mechanical engineering approach for three dimensional modeling procedure and measurements of the heart anatomy. Doctoral dissertation, 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

James G (2000) Talking and Driving: Growing Road Menace? New York Times 14NJ1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grayson 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Frank and Nowak 2003; Grayson 2013).

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

Two authors: (Frank and Nowak 2003)
Three or more authors: (Raghavan et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transgenic Research
Abbreviation	Transgenic Res.
ISSN (print)	0962-8819
ISSN (online)	1573-9368
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Animal Science and Zoology Biotechnology Genetics