Human Genetics: Citation Styles

CSE (Council of Science Editors) Style is frequently used in biological literature.  Use the Name-Year system style for this class.

There are three variant forms.

• Citation-Sequence (C-S) system  uses numbers within the text to refer to the end references which are listed in the order they are referred to in the text. Subsequent citations to the same document use the same number as its initial citation:
   
  In text example: Modern scientific nomenclature really began with Linnaeus in botany¹, but other disciplines²,³ were not many years behind in developing various systems^4-7 for nomenclature and symbolization
   
• Citation-Name (C-N) system uses numbers within the text to refer to the end references which are listed alphabetically by author and then by title.:
  
  In text example: Modern scientific nomenclature really began with Linnaeus in botany⁴, but other discipline¹,⁵ were not many years behind in developing various systems^2-3,⁶,¹⁰ for nomenclature and symbolization
   
• Name-Year (N-Y) system uses the surname of the author and the year of publication to refer to the end references which are then listed alphabetically by author and then by year:
   
  In text example: By contrast, the several antisera that have been raised against Sp1, a defined RNA polymerase II transcription factor (Kadonaga 1986), stain exclusively the nucleus...

CSE (Council of Science Editors) Style is frequently used for biological literature. Here are a variety of sites which show examples of CSE citations:              Use the Name-Year system style for this class.