How to format your references using the New Genetics and Society citation style

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

Graham-Rowe, Duncan. 2011. “Biodiversity: Endangered and in Demand.” Nature 480 (7378): S101-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berndt, Andre, and Karl Deisseroth. 2015. “OPTOGENETICS. Expanding the Optogenetics Toolkit.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 349 (6248): 590–591.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tanaka, Yosuke, Yasushi Okada, and Nobutaka Hirokawa. 2005. “FGF-Induced Vesicular Release of Sonic Hedgehog and Retinoic Acid in Leftward Nodal Flow Is Critical for Left-Right Determination.” Nature 435 (7039): 172–177.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Schall, Daniel, Martin Otto, Daniel Neumaier, and Heinrich Kurz. 2013. “Integrated Ring Oscillators Based on High-Performance Graphene Inverters.” Scientific Reports 3 (2013): 2592.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lalena, John N., and David A. Cleary. 2005. Principles of Inorganic Materials Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Neote, Kuldeep, Gordon L. Letts, and Bernhard Moser, eds. 2007. Chemokine Biology — Basic Research and Clinical Application: Volume II: Pathophysiology of Chemokines. Progress in Inflammation Research. Basel: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Sekiya, Fumiki, and Akihiro Sugimoto. 2012. “Discrete Polynomial Curve Fitting to Noisy Data.” In Combinatorial Image Analaysis: 15th International Workshop, IWCIA 2012, Austin, TX, USA, November 28-30, 2012. Proceedings, edited by Reneta P. Barneva, Valentin E. Brimkov, and Jake K. Aggarwal, 59–74. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, David Hutchison, Takeo Kanade, Josef Kittler, Jon M. Kleinberg, Friedemann Mattern, John C. Mitchell, Moni Naor, et al. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 New Genetics and Society.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2014. “Common Gene Variations Account for Half of Autism Variation.” IFLScience, IFLScience, July 21. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/common-gene-variations-account-half-autism-variation/.

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. 1990. HHS ADP Procurement: Contracting and Market Share Information. IMTEC-90-87FS. 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

Martinez, Veronica. 2010. “The Relationship between Visit to a Doctor and the Health Behaviors of Children.” Doctoral dissertation, 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

Walsh, Mary Williams, and Michael Cooper. 2013. “Big Teachers’ Fund to Sell Its Gun Shares.” New York Times, January 10, 2013.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Graham-Rowe 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Graham-Rowe 2011; Berndt and Deisseroth 2015).

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

Two authors: (Berndt and Deisseroth 2015)
Three authors: (Tanaka, Okada, and Hirokawa 2005)
4 or more authors: (Schall et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	New Genetics and Society
Abbreviation	New Genet. Soc.
ISSN (print)	1463-6778
ISSN (online)	1469-9915
Scope	Genetics Health Policy Issues, ethics and legal aspects Health(social science)