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

Zieminska D (2015) High-energy physics: Proton smasher spots rare particle decays. Nature 522:42–43

A journal article with 2 authors

Yartsev MM, Ulanovsky N (2013) Representation of three-dimensional space in the hippocampus of flying bats. Science 340:367–372

A journal article with 3 authors

Álvarez GA, Suter D, Kaiser R (2015) QUANTUM SIMULATION. Localization-delocalization transition in the dynamics of dipolar-coupled nuclear spins. Science 349:846–848

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Samejima K, Ueda Y, Doya K, Kimura M (2005) Representation of action-specific reward values in the striatum. Science 310:1337–1340

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ohshima H (2010) Biophysical Chemistry of Biointerfaces. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Nguyen NT, Jain LC (eds) (2009) Intelligent Agents in the Evolution of Web and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Murphy M (2006) The Role of Assortative Mating on Population Growth in Contemporary Developed Societies. In: Billari FC, Fent T, Prskawetz A, Scheffran J (eds) Agent-Based Computational Modelling: Applications in Demography, Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg, pp 61–84

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

Davis J (2015) GM Crops that Produce Fish Oil Successfully Grown in the Field. In: IFLScience. 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 (1977) Review of NASA Contract To Determine Procedures Used in Negotiating Noncompetitive Contracts. 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

Seegmiller Renner A (2017) Empathy Development Through Role Modeling: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Experiences. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Pilon M (2012) A Coach Inspires an Artist. New York Times SP7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zieminska 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Yartsev and Ulanovsky 2013; Zieminska 2015).

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

Two authors: (Yartsev and Ulanovsky 2013)
Three or more authors: (Samejima et al. 2005)

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