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

Smaglik P (2002) Building Nordic networks. Nature 420:A3, A5, A7

A journal article with 2 authors

Schaff DP, Richards PG (2004) Repeating seismic events in China. Science 303:1176–1178

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang M, Atkinson KR, Baughman RH (2004) Multifunctional carbon nanotube yarns by downsizing an ancient technology. Science 306:1358–1361

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chin AI, Dempsey PW, Bruhn K, et al (2002) Involvement of receptor-interacting protein 2 in innate and adaptive immune responses. Nature 416:190–194

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hanzo L, Keller T (2006) OFDM and MC-CDMA. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Matera M, Rossi G (eds) (2013) Trends in Mobile Web Information Systems: MobiWIS 2013 International Workshops, Paphos, Cyprus, August 26-28, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Andrews M, Seddighi H, Hodge S, et al (2010) Consequences of Predicted Climatic Changes on International Trade in Cool Season Grain Legume Crops. In: Yadav SS, Redden R (eds) Climate Change and Management of Cool Season Grain Legume Crops. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 87–97

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

Carpineti A (2016) Stephen Hawking Shows How Information Is Not Lost In Black Holes. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/stephen-hawking-shows-how-information-is-not-lost-in-black-holes/. 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 (1994) Overhead Costs: Unallowable Costs Charged by Rockwell Corporation, Rocketdyne Division. 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

Kory R (2017) Development of an educational seminar for college female athletes, coaches, athletic directors and parents on the female athlete triad. 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

Oestreich JR (2016) Expressive Flair in a New York Debut. New York Times C2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2002; Schaff and Richards 2004).

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

Two authors: (Schaff and Richards 2004)
Three or more authors: (Chin et al. 2002)

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

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