How to format your references using the G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 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

Dial KP. 2003. Wing-assisted incline running and the evolution of flight. Science. 299(5605):402–404

A journal article with 2 authors

Pickard CJ, Needs RJ. 2014. High-pressure physics: Piling on the pressure. Nature. 511(7509):294–295

A journal article with 3 authors

Li C, Zhang T, Goldman DI. 2013. A terradynamics of legged locomotion on granular media. Science. 339(6126):1408–1412

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Houghton AM et al. 2009. Macrophage elastase kills bacteria within murine macrophages. Nature. 460(7255):637–641

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pagliaro M. 2010. Nano-Age. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Issar G. 2016. Operational Excellence: A Concise Guide to Basic Concepts and Their Application. 1st ed. 2016. Navon LR, editor. Springer International Publishing. (Management for Professionals).

A chapter in an edited book

Balliauw M, Decoster X. 2012. Hosting Your Own NuGet Server. In: Decoster X, editor. Pro NuGet. Apress; p 105–153

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 G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics.

Blog post

Carpineti A. 2016. IFLScience; [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-have-found-another-star-that-has-extreme-dips-in-light-for-unknown-reasons/

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. 2000. Intellectual Property: Deposits of Biological Materials in Support of Certain Patent Applications. U.S. Government Printing Office. Report No.: GAO-01-49.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Magnus JV. 2017. Female Police Officers: The Influence of a Masculine Culture [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral 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

Wagner J. 2016. After Striking Out, Nationals Swing a Trade. New York Times. B12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dial 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Dial 2003; Pickard and Needs 2014).

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

Two authors: (Pickard and Needs 2014)
Three or more authors: (Houghton et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
Abbreviation	G3 (Bethesda)
ISSN (online)	2160-1836
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology Genetics(clinical)