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

Kasevich MA. 2002. Coherence with atoms. Science. 298(5597):1363–68

A journal article with 2 authors

Fox RC, Scott CS. 2005. First evidence of a venom delivery apparatus in extinct mammals. Nature. 435(7045):1091–93

A journal article with 3 authors

Mashchenko S, Couchman HMP, Wadsley J. 2006. The removal of cusps from galaxy centres by stellar feedback in the early Universe. Nature. 442(7102):539–42

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kandada ARS, Grancini G, Petrozza A, Perissinotto S, Fazzi D, et al. 2013. Ultrafast energy transfer in ultrathin organic donor/acceptor blend. Sci. Rep. 3:2073

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Koepsell D. 2015. Who Owns You? Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd

An edited book

Polfer NC, Dugourd P, eds. 2013. Laser Photodissociation and Spectroscopy of Mass-separated Biomolecular Ions, Vol. 83. Cham: Springer International Publishing. XI, 119 p. 79 illus., 36 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Bleher PM. 2009. Exact Solution of the Six-Vertex Model with Domain Wall Boundary Conditions. In New Trends in Mathematical Physics: Selected contributions of the XVth International Congress on Mathematical Physics, ed V Sidoravičius, pp. 59–72. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

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

Hale T. 2017. Take A Trip With NASA’s Travel Posters For The New TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/take-a-trip-with-nasas-travel-posters-for-the-new-trappist1-exoplanets/

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. 2015. Indian Affairs: Further Actions on GAO Recommendations Needed to Address Systemic Management Challenges with Indian Education. GAO-15-539T, 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

Ayer EW. 2013. An N-gram enhanced learning classifier for Chinese character recognition. 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

Moschen I. 2013. The Two-Wheeled Amenity. New York Times, June 9, p. RE8

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, 5, 7, 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)