How to format your references using the Ecological Genetics and Genomics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ecological Genetics and Genomics. 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 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

[1]

T. Reichhardt, NASA pays the price of its dash for Mars, Nature 404 (2000) 535.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K. Suenaga, M. Koshino, Atom-by-atom spectroscopy at graphene edge, Nature 468 (2010) 1088–1090.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C.H. Jan, C.C. Williams, J.S. Weissman, Principles of ER cotranslational translocation revealed by proximity-specific ribosome profiling, Science 346 (2014) 1257521.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.J.R. Loewen, M.L. Gaspar, S.A. Jesch, C. Delon, N.T. Ktistakis, S.A. Henry, T.P. Levine, Phospholipid metabolism regulated by a transcription factor sensing phosphatidic acid, Science 304 (2004) 1644–1647.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Massari, G. Gianfrate, L. Zanetti, Corporate Valuation, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

H.A. Le Thi, N.T. Nguyen, T.V. Do, eds., Advanced Computational Methods for Knowledge Engineering: Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Applications - ICCSAMA 2015, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V. Bally, L. Caramellino, R. Cont, Pathwise calculus for non-anticipative functionals, in: L. Caramellino, R. Cont, F. Utzet, J. Vives (Eds.), Stochastic Integration by Parts and Functional Itô Calculus, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 125–152.

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 Ecological Genetics and Genomics.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Small Birds Warring Over Nests Resort To Parasitism, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/small-birds-warring-over-nests-resort-parasitism/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Data Center Consolidation: Agencies Making Progress, but Planned Savings Goals Need to Be Established [Reissued on March 4, 2016], U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.L. Walther, Approaches to Stream Restoration: Practices in Missouri and Illinois, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2017.

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

[1]

M.S. Hammond, The Art of Passing for Them, New York Times (2013) BR27.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Ecological Genetics and Genomics
Abbreviation	Ecol. Genet. Genom.
ISSN (print)	2405-9854
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