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

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

Macneil JS. ECOLOGY: Forest Fire Plan Kindles Debate. Science 2000; 289: 1448b–9b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jones PA, Takai D. The role of DNA methylation in mammalian epigenetics. Science 2001; 293: 1068–1070.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fashami MS, Atulasimha J, Bandyopadhyay S. Energy dissipation and error probability in fault-tolerant binary switching. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 3204.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Konishi Y, Stegmüller J, Matsuda T, Bonni S, Bonni A. Cdh1-APC controls axonal growth and patterning in the mammalian brain. Science 2004; 303: 1026–1030.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Diab WW, Frazier HM. Ethernet in the First Mile. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Saeidnia S. Satureja: Ethnomedicine, Phytochemical Diversity and Pharmacological Activities. Cham: Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Symes A, Rané A. Tuberculosis, AIDS, and Other Uncommon Urinary Tract Infections. In: Rané A, Dasgupta R, editors. Urinary Tract Infection: Clinical Perspectives on Urinary Tract Infection. London: Springer, 2013: 33–44.

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 World Journal of Medical Genetics.

Blog post

Davis J. Rubella Has Officially Been Eradicated From The Americas. IFLScience. 2015.

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. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: DEA Has Developed Plans and Established Controls for Business Continuity Planning. 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

Casem J. Moku Ka Pawa: Drawn to the Light. 2009.

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

Kenigsberg B. Naughty Boy: Mommy Issues Explain a Lot. New York Times. 2016; : C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference ^[1].
This sentence cites two references ^[1,2].
This sentence cites four references ^[1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	World Journal of Medical Genetics
ISSN (online)	2220-3184
Scope