How to format your references using the Annual Review of Genetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review 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	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

Atlas RM. 2002. Public health. National security and the biological research community. Science. 298(5594):753–54

A journal article with 2 authors

Vaahtomeri K, Sixt M. 2014. Physiology: Relax and come in. Nature. 514(7523):441–42

A journal article with 3 authors

Bradley J, Reuter D, Frings S. 2001. Facilitation of calmodulin-mediated odor adaptation by cAMP-gated channel subunits. Science. 294(5549):2176–78

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bibikova M, Beumer K, Trautman JK, Carroll D. 2003. Enhancing gene targeting with designed zinc finger nucleases. Science. 300(5620):764

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Radoine H. 2017. Architecture in Context. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Courtet P, ed. 2016. Understanding Suicide: From Diagnosis to Personalized Treatment. Cham: Springer International Publishing. XI, 457 p. 11 illus., 10 illus. in color p. 1st ed. 2016 ed.

A chapter in an edited book

Oprach M, Bovekamp B. 2013. Hybrid Threats and Supply Chain Safety Management. In Supply Chain Safety Management: Security and Robustness in Logistics, ed M Essig, M Hülsmann, E-M Kern, S Klein-Schmeink, pp. 89–100. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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 Annual Review of Genetics.

Blog post

Davis J. 2016. US Imports Of Oil From The Amazon Are Rising. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 1997. Surface Transportation: States Are Experimenting With Design-Build Contracting. RCED-97-138R, 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

Smith KA. 2010. Impact of animal assisted therapy reading instruction on reading performance of homeschooled students. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Northcentral 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

Pilon M. 2012. Far From a Straight Shot to a Milestone Achievement. New York Times, July 30, p. D2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (2, 4).
This sentence cites four references (2, 6–8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Genetics
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Genet.
ISSN (print)	0066-4197
ISSN (online)	1545-2948
Scope	Genetics