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

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

Tauxe W. 2015. Genome editing: 4 big questions. Nature. 528(7580):S17

A journal article with 2 authors

Reddy GV, Meyerowitz EM. 2005. Stem-cell homeostasis and growth dynamics can be uncoupled in the Arabidopsis shoot apex. Science. 310(5748):663–67

A journal article with 3 authors

Faehnle CR, Walleshauser J, Joshua-Tor L. 2014. Mechanism of Dis3l2 substrate recognition in the Lin28-let-7 pathway. Nature. 514(7521):252–56

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Li F, Cowley DO, Banner D, Holle E, Zhang L, Su L. 2014. Efficient genetic manipulation of the NOD-Rag1-/-IL2RgammaC-null mouse by combining in vitro fertilization and CRISPR/Cas9 technology. Sci. Rep. 4:5290

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cheng L, Lopez-Beltran A, Bostwick DG. 2012. Bladder Pathology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mauffrey C, Hak DJ, eds. 2015. Passport for the Orthopedic Boards and FRCS Examination. Paris: Springer. XI, 1089 p. 185 illus., 72 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Sha R, Zhang X, Liao S, Constantinou PE, Ding B, et al. 2005. Structural DNA Nanotechnology: Molecular Construction and Computation. In Unconventional Computation: 4th International Conference, UC 2005, Sevilla, Spain, October 3 – 7, 2005. Proceedings, ed CS Calude, MJ Dinneen, G Păun, MJ Pérez-Jímenez, G Rozenberg, pp. 20–31. 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 Genomics and Human Genetics.

Blog post

Andrews R. 2017. Cancer Expert On AHCA: “This Bill Will Make America Sicker.” 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. 2014. Computer Matching Act: OMB and Selected Agencies Need to Ensure Consistent Implementation. GAO-14-44, 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

Fisher MD. 2014. The impact adult supervision, role models, and civic engagement has on the health status of adolescents. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

Crow K. 2001. The Newest Tower: Working 24/7. New York Times, Dec. 9, p. 1414

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 Genomics and Human Genetics
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Genomics Hum. Genet.
ISSN (print)	1527-8204
ISSN (online)	1545-293X
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology Genetics(clinical)