Publications to cite in your manuscripts

Please use the following citation formats when referring to resources available from the Mouse Genome Informatics Web Site in your publications.

MGD:

Blake JA, Bult CJ, Kadin JA, Richardson JE, Eppig JT and the Mouse Genome Database Group. 2011. The Mouse Genome Database (MGD): premier model organism resource for mammalian genomics and genetics. Nucleic Acids Res 39(suppl 1): D842-D848.

GXD:

Finger JH, Smith CM, Hayamizu TF, McCright IJ, Eppig JT, Kadin JA, Richardson JE, Ringwald M. 2011. The mouse Gene Expression Database (GXD): 2011 update. Nucleic Acids Res 39(suppl 1): D835-D841.

MTB:

Krupke DM, Begley DA, Sundberg JP, Bult CJ, Eppig JT. 2008. The Mouse Tumor Biology database. Nat Rev Cancer. 8: 459-465.

See Mouse Genome Informatics Publications for an expanded list of resources available at the Mouse Genome Informatics website.

To cite specific database projects, use a format similar to that shown in the following examples:

Mouse Genome Database (MGD) at the Mouse Genome Informatics website, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine. World Wide Web (URL: http://www.informatics.jax.org). [Type in date (month, yr) when you retrieve data cited].

Gene Expression Database (GXD), Mouse Genome Informatics Web Site. World Wide Web (URL: http://www.informatics.jax.org). [Type in date (month, yr) when you retrieve data cited.]

Mouse Tumor Biology Database (MTB), Mouse Genome Informatics Web Site, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine. World Wide Web (URL: http://tumor.informatics.jax.org/mtbwi/index.do). [Type in date (month, yr) when you retrieved data cited].

To cite a specific data area or display, use a format similar to that shown in the following examples:

Some homology data for this paper were retrieved from the Mouse Genome Database (MGD), Mouse Genome Informatics, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine. World Wide Web (URL: http://www.informatics.jax.org). (June, 2003 [i.e., the date you retrieved the data cited]).

Davisson MT, Cook SA, Eicher EM. The first spontaneous mutation in the mouse Herc2 gene, MGI Direct Data Submission to Mouse Genome Database (MGD), MGI:1349786,  (URL: http://www.informatics.jax.org). (1999).