How to format your references using the Transgenic Research citation style

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

Driehuys B (2006) Chemistry. Toward molecular imaging with xenon MRI. Science 314:432–433

A journal article with 2 authors

Bridson R, Batty C (2010) Computer science. Computational physics in film. Science 330:1756–1757

A journal article with 3 authors

Zimmerman A, Bai L, Ginty DD (2014) The gentle touch receptors of mammalian skin. Science 346:950–954

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Guedes-Martins L, Cunha A, Saraiva J, et al (2014) Internal iliac and uterine arteries Doppler ultrasound in the assessment of normotensive and chronic hypertensive pregnant women. Sci Rep 4:3785

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gregory J (2014) Central Counterparties. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Schildmann J, Sandow V, Rauprich O, Vollmann J (eds) (2012) Human Medical Research: Ethical, Legal and Socio-Cultural Aspects. Springer, Basel

A chapter in an edited book

Mongini C (2015) Morphogenesis Under Construction: Tracing the Process of Individuation Along Physico-Aesthetic Coordinates. In: Sarti A, Montanari F, Galofaro F (eds) Morphogenesis and Individuation. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 75–89

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 Transgenic Research.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2015) This Image Shows The Most Terrifying Explosion In The Universe. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/most-terrifying-explosion-universe/. 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 (1977) Control of the National Science Foundation Peer Review Study. 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

Garrett D (2013) A quantitative study of STEM goal and role alignment across stakeholder leaders in California: Advocacy for application of a systems solution approach. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Billard M (2010) A Pop-Up Showcase. New York Times E6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Driehuys 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Driehuys 2006; Bridson and Batty 2010).

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

Two authors: (Bridson and Batty 2010)
Three or more authors: (Guedes-Martins et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transgenic Research
Abbreviation	Transgenic Res.
ISSN (print)	0962-8819
ISSN (online)	1573-9368
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Animal Science and Zoology Biotechnology Genetics