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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Human 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

1. DeHaan, R.L. (2011). Science education. Teaching creative science thinking. Science 334, 1499–1500.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Singer, P.A., and Daar, A.S. (2001). Harnessing genomics and biotechnology to improve global health equity. Science 294, 87–89.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Guiteras, R., Levinsohn, J., and Mobarak, A.M. (2015). Sanitation subsidies. Encouraging sanitation investment in the developing world: a cluster-randomized trial. Science 348, 903–906.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

1. Cho, H., Hashimoto, T., Wong, E., Hori, Y., Wood, L.B., Zhao, L., Haigis, K.M., Hyman, B.T., and Irimia, D. (2013). Microfluidic chemotaxis platform for differentiating the roles of soluble and bound amyloid-β on microglial accumulation. Sci. Rep. 3, 1823.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Brown, M., and Cutler, T.J. (2012). Haematology Nursing (West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.).

An edited book

1. (2009). Innovation Networks: New Approaches in Modelling and Analyzing (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

1. Baer, S., and Ensslin, K. (2015). Non-Abelian Statistics and Its Signatures in Interference Experiments. In Transport Spectroscopy of Confined Fractional Quantum Hall Systems, K. Ensslin, ed. (Cham: Springer International Publishing), pp. 63–71.

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 American Journal of Human Genetics.

Blog post

1. Andrew, E. (2015). Teenage Girl Had To Stay Awake For Four Days After Parasite Started Eating Her Eyeball (IFLScience).

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

1. Government Accountability Office (2016). Federal Human Resources Data: OPM Should Improve the Availability and Reliability of Payroll Data to Support Accountability and Workforce Analytics (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

1. LaPoint, J.L. (2008). The effects of aviation -based error management training on perioperative safety attitudes. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix.

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

1. Goodman, J. (2017). Profiles in Caution. New York Times BR9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	American Journal of Human Genetics
Abbreviation	Am. J. Hum. Genet.
ISSN (print)	0002-9297
ISSN (online)	1537-6605
Scope	Genetics Genetics(clinical)