How to format your references using the Current Genetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Genetics. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Marshak MP (2015) My trek back to science. Science 349:1406

A journal article with 2 authors

Geddis AE, Kaushansky K (2007) Immunology. The root of platelet production. Science 317:1689–1691

A journal article with 3 authors

Agrawal AF, Brodie ED 3rd, Brown J (2001) Parent-offspring coadaptation and the dual genetic control of maternal care. Science 292:1710–1712

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lanyon BP, Hempel C, Nigg D, et al (2011) Universal digital quantum simulation with trapped ions. Science 334:57–61

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lyshevski SE (2005) Engineering and Scientific Computations Using MATLAB®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Wichert R, Eberhardt B (eds) (2012) Ambient Assisted Living: 5. AAL-Kongress 2012 Berlin, Germany, January 24-25, 2012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Gross RH, De Jager PL (2011) MS: Epidemiology and Genetics. In: Rizvi SA, Coyle PK (eds) Clinical Neuroimmunology: Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 71–87

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 Current Genetics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) NASA Tests 3D Printed Rocket Parts. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/nasa-tests-3d-printed-rocket-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 (1991) Airport Safety: New Radar That Will Help Prevent Accidents Is 4 Years Behind Schedule. 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

Randall SL (2010) Psychologists’ use of, familiarity, and comfort with Alcoholics Anonymous Slogans in psychotherapy. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Bernard TS (2017) Prosecutors Open Criminal Investigation Into Sweeping Equifax Data Breach. New York Times B7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marshak 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Geddis and Kaushansky 2007; Marshak 2015).

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

Two authors: (Geddis and Kaushansky 2007)
Three or more authors: (Lanyon et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Genetics
Abbreviation	Curr. Genet.
ISSN (print)	0172-8083
ISSN (online)	1432-0983
Scope	Genetics General Medicine