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

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

Mercader J (2009) Mozambican grass seed consumption during the Middle Stone Age. Science 326:1680–1683

A journal article with 2 authors

Volz J, Rauschenbeutel A (2012) Physics. Two atoms announce their long-distance relationship. Science 337:40–41

A journal article with 3 authors

Depège N, Bellafiore S, Rochaix J-D (2003) Role of chloroplast protein kinase Stt7 in LHCII phosphorylation and state transition in Chlamydomonas. Science 299:1572–1575

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang F, Zhou Z, Xu X, et al (2008) A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran from China with elongate ribbon-like feathers. Nature 455:1105–1108

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kenett RS, Zacks S, Amberti D (2013) Modern Industrial Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Alpert GP (2014) Police Pursuit Driving: Policy and Research. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Popper AN, Hawkins AD, Fay RR, et al (2014) Classification of Fishes and Sea Turtles with Respect to Sound Exposure Risk. In: Hawkins AD, Fay RR, Mann DA, et al. (eds) ASA S3/SC1.4 TR-2014 Sound Exposure Guidelines for Fishes and Sea Turtles: A Technical Report prepared by ANSI-Accredited Standards Committee S3/SC1 and registered with ANSI. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 15–16

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 Community Genetics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) 3D-Printed Smart Bottle Cap Could Tell You When Your Food Has Expired. In: IFLScience. 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 (1978) U.S. Statistics on International Technology Transfer: Need for Additional Measures. 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

De los Santos E (2014) Increasing the psychological well-being of undocumented Latino youth students in California: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kelly C (2013) Maybe Animals Just Need Quality Time With Friends. New York Times A23B

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mercader 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Mercader 2009; Volz and Rauschenbeutel 2012).

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

Two authors: (Volz and Rauschenbeutel 2012)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Community Genetics
Abbreviation	J. Community Genet.
ISSN (print)	1868-310X
ISSN (online)	1868-6001
Scope	Epidemiology Genetics(clinical) Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health