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

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

Russell, T.P., 2002. Surface-responsive materials. Science 297, 964–967.

A journal article with 2 authors

Al Khawaja, U., Stoof, H., 2001. Skyrmions in a ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate. Nature 411, 918–920.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shi, F., Li, J., Wilson, R.J.S., 2014. A tree-ring reconstruction of the South Asian summer monsoon index over the past millennium. Sci. Rep. 4, 6739.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

de Lau, W., Barker, N., Low, T.Y., Koo, B.-K., Li, V.S.W., Teunissen, H., Kujala, P., Haegebarth, A., Peters, P.J., van de Wetering, M., Stange, D.E., van Es, J.E., Guardavaccaro, D., Schasfoort, R.B.M., Mohri, Y., Nishimori, K., Mohammed, S., Heck, A.J.R., Clevers, H., 2011. Lgr5 homologues associate with Wnt receptors and mediate R-spondin signalling. Nature 476, 293–297.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tunley, M., Whittaker, A., Gee, J., Button, M., 2015. The Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Clark, J.A., Paige, R.F., Polack, F.A.C., Brooke, P.J. (Eds.), 2006. Security in Pervasive Computing: Third International Conference, SPC 2006, York, UK, April 18-21, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Yumoto, M., Daikoku, T., 2016. Basic Function, in: Tobimatsu, S., Kakigi, R. (Eds.), Clinical Applications of Magnetoencephalography. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 97–112.

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 Genetics and Genomics.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2015. New Laser Could Generate Sun’s Core Temperature Instantaneously [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-laser-could-generate-suns-core-temperature-instantaneously/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2004. Aviation Security: Preliminary Observations on TSA’s Progress to Allow Airports to Use Private Passenger and Baggage Screening Services (No. GAO-05-126). 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

Nolan, C., 2017. Safety Mindfulness: The Incorporation of Low-Dose Mindfulness as a Leading Edge Safety Intervention (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Ortved, J., 2017. Stylish Like a Fox, And Back in the City. New York Times D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Russell, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Al Khawaja and Stoof, 2001; Russell, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Al Khawaja and Stoof, 2001)
Three or more authors: (de Lau et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Genetics and Genomics
Abbreviation	J. Genet. Genomics
ISSN (print)	1673-8527
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology