Earlham Libraries Home: BIO 112: Cells, Genes and Inheritance (CGI) GENETIC DISEASE PROJECT: Cite Sources

Format for Literature Cited

Format for Entrez Gene item
Gene name. GeneID=XXXX. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene
Format for Gene Cards
http://www.genecards.org/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=XXX
Format for a Gene Wiki Article
NAMES OF WIKI CONTRIBUTORS. NAME OF THE WIKI PAGE. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia; DATE OF THE LAST REVISION [DATE YOU LOOKED AT IT]. Available from: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=XXXXX (THIS LAST PART IS THE PERMANENT LINK, FILL IT IN)
Format for an OMIM Article
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, OMIM (TM). Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. OMIM Number: PUT THE OMIM NUMBER IN THIS SPOT : PUT THE DATE LAST EDITED IN THIS SPOT: . World Wide Web URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/
Format for HPRD
Prasad, T. S. K., Goel, R., Kandasamy, K., Keerthikumar, S., Kumar, S., Mathivanan, S., Telikicherla, D., Raju, R., Shafreen, B., Venugopal, A., Balakrishnan, L., Marimuthu, A., Banerjee, S., Somanathan, D. S., Sebastian, A., Rani, S., Ray, S., Kishore, C. J. H., Kanth, S., Ahmed, M., Kashyap, M., Mohmood, R., Ramachandra, Y. L., Krishna, V., Rahiman, A. B., Mohan, S., Ranganathan, P., Ramabadran, S., Chaerkady, R. and Pandey, A. Human Protein Reference Database - 2009 update. Nucleic Acids Rese
Format for PDB
Cite with both PDB ID and the primary reference. For example:
PDB ID: 102L
Heinz, D.W., W.A. Baase, F.W. Dahlquist, aand B.W. Matthews. 1993. How amino-acid insertions are allowed in an alpha-helix of T4 lysozyme. Nature 361:561.

For structures without a published reference use PDB ID, author names, and title:
PDB ID: 1CI0
Shi, W., Ostrov, D.A., New York Structural GenomiX Research Consortium (NYSGXRC)
The Structure of PNP Oxidase from S. cerevisiae
Journal Article
Mulnix A.B., Hunnicutt A.L., Gabriel A.J. 2005. Expression of the awesome gene in Earlham bio majors. Nature 206: 33-37.http://www.nature.com/nature/vol1/mulnix.html. Accessed 2009 23 March.
Citing Scientific Literature in Earlham Biology Courses
Appropriate in-text citation format and literature cited list format for a variety of forms of literature. The standard manual used in Earlham Biology courses.
UniProt Knowledge Base
Start with protein name, then the information provided at the top of the protein entry, then the URL of the entry. The key piece of information to include is the accession number (P99999) in the example for cytochrome c shown below:
Cytochrome C. UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot P99999 (CYC_HUMAN) http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P99999
ECgene: Genome Annotation with Alternative Splicing
Gene name or symbol of what you looked for. ECgene. Name of the section of ECgene that you consulted. Title of the page, if there appears to be one. The URL for the place where you finally got the info. Examples:
RB1. ECgene. ECfunction. Gene structure of RB1. http://genome.ewha.ac.kr/ECgene/ECfunction/
RB1. ECgene. GenomeBrowser. UCSC Genome Browser on Human Mar. 2006 (NCBI36/hg18) Assembly. http://genome.ewha.ac.kr/ECgene/gbr/