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

Yewdell JW. 2003. Immunology. Hide and seek in the peptidome. Science. 301(5638):1334–35

A journal article with 2 authors

Bakker HJ, Nienhuys H-K. 2002. Delocalization of protons in liquid water. Science. 297(5581):587–90

A journal article with 3 authors

Rossi DJ, Oshima T, Attwell D. 2000. Glutamate release in severe brain ischaemia is mainly by reversed uptake. Nature. 403(6767):316–21

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Moskun AC, Jailaubekov AE, Bradforth SE, Tao G, Stratt RM. 2006. Rotational coherence and a sudden breakdown in linear response seen in room-temperature liquids. Science. 311(5769):1907–11

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leach M, Drummond M, Doig A. 2013. Practical Flow Cytometry in Haematology Diagnosis. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons

An edited book

Dumas M, Reichert M, Shan M-C, eds. 2008. Business Process Management: 6th International Conference, BPM 2008, Milan, Italy, September 2-4, 2008. Proceedings, Vol. 5240. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. XIII, 399 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Lunt T. 2016. (Dis)Locating Hospitality: Reader Positioning in Australian Picture Books about Asylum Seekers. In Childhood and Nation: Interdisciplinary Engagements, ed Z Millei, R Imre, pp. 73–93. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan 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 Annual Review of Genetics.

Blog post

Hale T. 2015. This Polar Bear Raided A BBC Film Crew’s Cabin. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/polar-bear-raided-bbc-film-crews-cabin-norway/

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. 2012. Trade Adjustment Assistance: Labor Awarded Community College Grants in Accordance with Requirements, but Needs to Improve Its Process. GAO-12-954, 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

Yu H. 2009. Parasitism of subterranean termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae: Termitidae) by entomopathogenic nematodes (Nematoda: Steinernematidae: Heterorhabditidae). Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of Arizona

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. 2017. For Ahkeem. New York Times, Oct. 12, p. C9

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 (3, 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