How to format your references using the Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. 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]

Smaglik P. It could be worse. Nature 2003;425:745.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chesson P, Kuang JJ. The interaction between predation and competition. Nature 2008;456:235–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Jeffery CS, Tout CA, Lattanzio JC. Astronomy. Nucleosynthesis in binary stars. Science 2006;311:345–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Aurbach D, Lu Z, Schechter A, Gofer Y, Gizbar H, Turgeman R, et al. Prototype systems for rechargeable magnesium batteries. Nature 2000;407:724–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ghaye T. Developing the Reflective Healthcare Team. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Chiba S, Tanter É, Ernst E, Hirschfeld R, editors. Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development XII. vol. 8989. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sverdlov V, Selberherr S. Spin-Based CMOS-Compatible Devices. In: Lirkov I, Margenov SD, Waśniewski J, editors. Large-Scale Scientific Computing: 10th International Conference, LSSC 2015, Sozopol, Bulgaria, June 8-12, 2015. Revised Selected Papers, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 42–9.

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 Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Hubble Space Telescope’s Chief Scientist On What It Took To Get The Project Off The Ground. IFLScience 2015.

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. Department of Education Uncertain About Effectiveness of Its Special Services Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sevilla AD. The moderating influence of core self-evaluation, emotional intelligence and extraversion on career success. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2014.

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]

Bogdanich W. The Sheriff’s War. New York Times 2017:A1.

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	Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
Abbreviation	J. Genet. Eng. Biotechnol.
ISSN (print)	1687-157X
Scope	Biotechnology Genetics