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

Triendl R. 2002. Back to basics. Nature. 420(6914):7

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwander T, Keller L. 2008. Genetic compatibility affects queen and worker caste determination. Science. 322(5901):552

A journal article with 3 authors

Aarts DGAL, Schmidt M, Lekkerkerker HNW. 2004. Direct visual observation of thermal capillary waves. Science. 304(5672):847–50

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Manyala N, DiTusa JF, Aeppli G, Ramirez AP. 2008. Doping a semiconductor to create an unconventional metal. Nature. 454(7207):976–80

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bartley T. 2011. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Moreno González C, Madriz Aguilar JE, Reyes Barrera LM, eds. 2014. Accelerated Cosmic Expansion: Proceedings of the Fourth International Meeting on Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 38. Cham: Springer International Publishing. XIV, 222 p. 48 illus., 41 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Yadav BS. 2011. André Weil: His Book on Number Theory and Indian References. In Ancient Indian Leaps into Mathematics, ed BS Yadav, M Mohan, pp. 55–61. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser

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. How The Snake Lost Its Legs. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-the-snake-lost-its-legs/

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. 2003. Transportation Security Administration: Actions and Plans to Build a Results-Oriented Culture. GAO-03-190, 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

Sadr EI. 2013. To whisper in the king’s ear: Economists in Pahlavi and Islamic Iran. Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of Maryland, College Park

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

Koblin J. 2017. Oliver Extends HBO Contract. New York Times, Sep. 12, p. C3

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 (3, 4).
This sentence cites four references (4, 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