How to format your references using the Heredity citation style

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

Silver LM (2001). What are clones? Nature 412: 21.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hood L, Galas D (2003). The digital code of DNA. Nature 421: 444–448.

A journal article with 3 authors

Osi A, Butler RJ, Weishampel DB (2010). A Late Cretaceous ceratopsian dinosaur from Europe with Asian affinities. Nature 465: 466–468.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rausch C, Daram P, Brunner S, Jansa J, Laloi M, Leggewie G, et al. (2001). A phosphate transporter expressed in arbuscule-containing cells in potato. Nature 414: 462–470.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baldwin P (2010). OSx86. Wiley Publishing, Inc.: Indianapolis, IN, USA.

An edited book

Huang W (2011). Adaptive Moving Mesh Methods (RD Russell, Ed.). Springer: New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Selouani S-A (2010). “Well Adjusted”: Using Robust and Flexible Speech Recognition Capabilities in Clean to Noisy Mobile Environments. In: Neustein A (ed) Advances in Speech Recognition: Mobile Environments, Call Centers and Clinics, Springer US: Boston, MA, pp 91–112.

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 Heredity.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015). Forget The Antioxidant Pills; Just Stick With Veggies. 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 (1999). Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Labor Has Progressed But Selected Systems Remain at Risk. 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

De Anda B (2012). Factors that contribute to the stigma of mental illness. Doctoral dissertation Thesis, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Paulson M (2017). Friends, Romans, Presidents. New York Times: C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Silver, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Silver, 2001; Hood and Galas, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Hood and Galas, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Rausch et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Heredity
Abbreviation	Heredity (Edinb.)
ISSN (print)	0018-067X
ISSN (online)	1365-2540
Scope	Genetics Genetics(clinical)