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

Doney SC (2010) The growing human footprint on coastal and open-ocean biogeochemistry. Science 328:1512–1516

A journal article with 2 authors

Halfar J, Fujita RM (2007) Ecology. Danger of deep-sea mining. Science 316:987

A journal article with 3 authors

Franco A, Malhotra N, Simonovits G (2014) Social science. Publication bias in the social sciences: unlocking the file drawer. Science 345:1502–1505

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tan W, Chen L, Ji X, Lin H-Q (2014) Photonic simulation of topological superconductor edge state and zero-energy mode at a vortex. Sci Rep 4:7381

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jelaska D (2012) Gears and Gear Drives. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Anai H, Horimoto K, Kutsia T (eds) (2007) Algebraic Biology: Second International Conference, AB 2007, Castle of Hagenberg, Austria, July 2-4, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Kavita Ramakrishnan (2016) “Propertied Ambiguity”: Negotiating the State in a Delhi Resettlement Colony. In: Chakravarty S, Negi R (eds) Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi. Springer India, New Delhi, pp 59–76

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

Andrew E (2015) Busting Myths: A Practical Guide To Countering Science Denial. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/busting-myths-practical-guide-countering-science-denial/. 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 (2003) Rail Safety and Security: Some Actions Already Taken to Enhance Rail Security, but Risk-based Plan Needed. 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

Verkaik P (2010) Enhancing networking protocols in widely deployed devices. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Feeney K (2007) A Short Menu of Longtime Favorites. New York Times NJ6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Doney 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Halfar and Fujita 2007; Doney 2010).

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

Two authors: (Halfar and Fujita 2007)
Three or more authors: (Tan et al. 2014)

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