How to format your references using the Genetica citation style

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

Wright J (2014) Nanotechnology: Deliver on a promise. Nature 509:S58-9

A journal article with 2 authors

Sercombe TB, Schaffer GB (2003) Rapid manufacturing of aluminum components. Science 301:1225–1227

A journal article with 3 authors

Huey DJ, Hu JC, Athanasiou KA (2012) Unlike bone, cartilage regeneration remains elusive. Science 338:917–921

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Holen SR, Deméré TA, Fisher DC, et al (2018) Holen et al. reply. Nature 554:E3

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sauter M (2014) From GSM to LTE-Advanced. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Bošnački D, Edelkamp S (eds) (2007) Model Checking Software: 14th International SPIN Workshop, Berlin, Germany, July 1-3, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Venkatesan V, Mohanta JK, Saha SK, Santhakumar M (2016) Dynamic Modelling Approaches for a 3-PPR Planar Parallel Manipulator. In: Vinod B, Voyles R, Vadakkepat P, et al. (eds) Advancements in Automation, Robotics and Sensing: First International Conference, ICAARS 2016, Coimbatore, India, June 23 - 24, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Singapore, pp 41–52

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 Genetica.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) Early Ancestor’s Skull Growth “Not Human-Like.” In: IFLScience. 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 (2000) Information Technology: Selected Agencies’ Use of Commercial Off-the-Shelf Software for Human Resources Functions. 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

Wisdom V (2015) Reverie: A portal to the numinous—an exploration into early childhood psychospiritual awareness. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Greenhouse L (2007) Justices, 5 to 4, Overturn 3 Texas Death Sentences. New York Times A22

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wright 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Sercombe and Schaffer 2003; Wright 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sercombe and Schaffer 2003)
Three or more authors: (Holen et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Genetica
Abbreviation	Genetica
ISSN (print)	0016-6707
ISSN (online)	1573-6857
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Insect Science Plant Science Genetics General Medicine