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

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

Wallsten, Scott. 2004. High-tech cluster bombs. Nature 428: 121–122.

A journal article with 2 authors

Keklikoglou, Ioanna, and Michele De Palma. 2014. Cancer: Metastasis risk after anti-macrophage therapy. Nature 515: 46–47.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kiss, Istvan Z., Yumei Zhai, and John L. Hudson. 2002. Emerging coherence in a population of chemical oscillators. Science (New York, N.Y.) 296: 1676–1678.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Xu, He-Xiu, Guang-Ming Wang, Zui Tao, and Tie Jun Cui. 2014. High-directivity emissions with flexible beam numbers and beam directions using gradient-refractive-index fractal metamaterial. Scientific reports 4: 5744.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yoder, Claude H., Phyllis A. Leber, and Marcus W. Thomsen. 2010. The Bridge to Organic Chemistry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Astiz, M. Fernanda, and Motoko Akiba, ed. 2016. The Global and the Local: Diverse Perspectives in Comparative Education. The World Council of Comparative Education Societies. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Mazure, Alain, and Vincent Le Brun. 2012. Cosmic Cluedo: where, when and how? In Matter, Dark Matter, and Anti-Matter: In Search of the Hidden Universe, ed. Vincent Le Brun, 57–69. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. New Gadget Can Turn Any HDTV Into A Desktop Computer. IFLScience. IFLScience. January 9.

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. 1994. Delta Teachers Academy. RCED-94-213R. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Croghan, Anna. 2014. The Effects of Depressive Symptomatology, Intrusive Thinking, and Age on Cognitive Functioning. Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Higgins, Andrew. 2013. $24 Million Insurance Paid on Stolen Art. New York Times, September 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wallsten 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Wallsten 2004; Keklikoglou and De Palma 2014).

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

Two authors: (Keklikoglou and De Palma 2014)
Three or more authors: (Xu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Genetics
ISSN (print)	0022-1333
ISSN (online)	0973-7731
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