How to format your references using the Genetics and Molecular Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Genetics and Molecular Biology. 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 299:402–404.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krauss LM and Chaboyer B (2003) Age estimates of globular clusters in the Milky Way: constraints on cosmology. Science 299:65–69.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mossinger J, White M and Goymer P (2013) Coastal regions. Nature 504:35.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Adamowicz BM, Chong DHY, Gutiérrez C, Matz J, Fer E, Polat EO, MacKay H, Galagedara R, Coste A, Pupkaite J et al. (2018) Broad interests reap benefits for science. Science 361:24–26.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

English JF (2012) The Global Future of English Studies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Cristofaro ED and Wright M (2013) Privacy Enhancing Technologies: 13th International Symposium, PETS 2013, Bloomington, IN, USA, July 10-12, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Scholtes-Spang K, Demant H and Benz M (2016) Sleep Disorders of Early Childhood. In: Cierpka M (ed) Regulatory Disorders in Infants: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 67–88

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 Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Teen Threatened With Graduation Ban For Yearbook Quote. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/teen-threatened-graduation-ban-yearbook-quote/. 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 (2010) Federal Transit Programs: Federal Transit Administration Has Opportunities to Improve Performance Accountability. 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

Rangwala R (2005) The Role of the PDZ Protein, Erbin, in Schwann Cells. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

MacFARQUHAR N (2017) Demonstrators Hit the Streets to Fight Moscow’s Mass Renovation Plan. New York Times A7.

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 (Krauss and Chaboyer 2003; Dial 2003).

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

Two authors: (Krauss and Chaboyer 2003)
Three or more authors: (Adamowicz et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Genetics and Molecular Biology
Abbreviation	Genet. Mol. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1415-4757
ISSN (online)	1678-4685
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology