How to format your references using the Genes to Cells citation style

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

Stewart, I., I. (2000). Mathematics. A gathering of groups. Nature 403, 719–720.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bloom, P., & Weisberg, D.S. (2007). Childhood origins of adult resistance to science. Science 316, 996–997.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huo, C., Ouyang, J., & Yang, H. (2014). CuO nanoparticles encapsulated inside Al-MCM-41 mesoporous materials via direct synthetic route. Sci. Rep. 4, 3682.

A journal article with 15 or more authors

Guo, C.X., Xie, J., Wang, B., Zheng, X., Yang, H.B., & Li, C.M. (2013). A new class of fluorescent-dots: long luminescent lifetime bio-dots self-assembled from DNA at low temperatures. Sci. Rep. 3, 2957.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Biegelman, M.T., & Biegelman, D.R. (2010). Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Compliance Guidebook (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

(2010). Electronic Participation: Second IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 29 – September 2, 2010. Proceedings (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Carey, A., Gesztesy, F., Levitina, G., & Sukochev, F. (2016). The Spectral Shift Function and the Witten Index. In Spectral Theory and Mathematical Physics, M. Mantoiu, G. Raikov, & R. Tiedra de Aldecoa, eds. (Cham: Springer International Publishing), pp. 71–105.

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 Genes to Cells.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2015). Archeologists Will Use Drones and Cosmic Rays To Peer Deep Inside The Pyramids (IFLScience).

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 (2016). High-Containment Laboratories: Improved Oversight of Dangerous Pathogens Needed to Mitigate Risk (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Harris, N.S. (2012). The Impact of Action Learning Experience on Reflective Practice. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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

Searcey, D., Hartocollis, A., Buettner, R., & Chen, D.W. (2015). Speaker Silver, a Rare Cancer and State Cash. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stewart, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bloom & Weisberg, 2007; Stewart, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Bloom & Weisberg, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Guo et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Genes to Cells
Abbreviation	Genes Cells
ISSN (online)	1365-2443
Scope	Cell Biology Genetics General Medicine