How to format your references using the Gene citation style

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

Bailey, M.E., 2002. Planetary science. Where have all the comets gone? Science 296, 2151–2153.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rodrigues, A.R., Tabin, C.J., 2013. Developmental biology. Deserts and waves in gene expression. Science 340, 1181–1182.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schön, J.H., Kloc, C., Batlogg, B., 2000. Superconductivity in molecular crystals induced by charge injection. Nature 406, 702–704.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gruber, T., Freeley, M., Thuille, N., Heit, I., Shaw, S., Long, A., Baier, G., 2006. Comment on “PDK1 nucleates T cell receptor-induced signaling complex for NF-kappaB activation.” Science 312, 55; author reply 55.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mathian, H., Sanders, L., 2014. Spatio-Temporal Approaches. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bartocci, E., Lio, P., Paoletti, N. (Eds.), 2016. Computational Methods in Systems Biology: 14th International Conference, CMSB 2016, Cambridge, UK, September 21-23, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Thiel-Bonney, C., von Hofacker, N., 2016. Feeding Disorders in Infants and Young Children, in: Cierpka, M. (Ed.), Regulatory Disorders in Infants: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 89–118.

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 Gene.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2017. Wild Orangutan Slaps Guy Trying To Take A Selfie With Him [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2010. Global Positioning System: Challenges in Sustaining and Upgrading Capabilities Persist (No. GAO-10-636). 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

Yang, Z., 2017. Primary Isotope Effect on Secondary Kinetic Isotope Effects and Hammett Correlations in Hydride Transfer Reactions (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Witz, B., 2016. Judge Dismisses Familia’s Criminal Case. New York Times B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bailey, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bailey, 2002; Rodrigues and Tabin, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Rodrigues and Tabin, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Gruber et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Gene
Abbreviation	Gene
ISSN (print)	0378-1119
Scope	Genetics General Medicine