How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Genetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Applied 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

Grayson M (2010) Parkinson’s disease. Nature 466:S1

A journal article with 2 authors

Collini E, Scholes GD (2009) Coherent intrachain energy migration in a conjugated polymer at room temperature. Science 323:369–373

A journal article with 3 authors

Serizawa T, Hamada K-I, Akashi M (2004) Polymerization within a molecular-scale stereoregular template. Nature 429:52–55

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kumar KR, Li L, Yan M, et al (2006) Regulation of B cell tolerance by the lupus susceptibility gene Ly108. Science 312:1665–1669

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beneke D, Peters M, Glasser D, Hildebrandt D (2012) Understanding Distillation Using Column Profile Maps. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Zheng K (2016) Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Probo M, Comin A, Agazzi A, et al (2012) Effect of Dry Period Length on NEFA and IGF-I Plasma Concentrations and Postpartum Ovarian Activity Resumption in Dairy Cows. In: Pugliese A, Gaiti A, Boiti C (eds) Veterinary Science: Current Aspects in Biology, Animal Pathology, Clinic and Food Hygiene. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 21–25

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 Journal of Applied Genetics.

Blog post

Fang J (2016) Dragons Have REM Sleep Too. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dragons-have-rem-sleep-too/. 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 (1992) Shuttle Rocket Motor Program: NASA Should Delay Awarding Some Construction Contracts. 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

Thompson AJ (2003) Textiles as Indicators of Hopewellian Culture Burial Practices. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

Nir SM (2017) For Family Reeling From Death in Times Square Crash, ‘Nothing Is Safe Anymore.’ New York Times A21

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grayson 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Collini and Scholes 2009; Grayson 2010).

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

Two authors: (Collini and Scholes 2009)
Three or more authors: (Kumar et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Genetics
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Genet.
ISSN (print)	1234-1983
ISSN (online)	2190-3883
Scope	Genetics General Medicine