How to format your references using the European Journal of Medical Genetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Medical 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

Cattaneo, A., 2015. Astrophysics: The slow death of red galaxies. Nature 521, 164–165.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kollatschny, W., Zetzl, M., 2011. Broad-line active galactic nuclei rotate faster than narrow-line ones. Nature 470, 366–368.

A journal article with 3 authors

McMahon, S.M., Miller, K.H., Drake, J., 2001. Social science and ecology. Networking tips for social scientists and ecologists. Science 293, 1604–1605.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nowack, K.C., Koppens, F.H.L., Nazarov, Y.V., Vandersypen, L.M.K., 2007. Coherent control of a single electron spin with electric fields. Science 318, 1430–1433.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, D.A., van de Waterbeemd, H., Walker, D.K., 2006. Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism in Drug Design: SMITH: PHARMACOKINETICS AND METABOLISM IN DRUG DESIGN O-BK, Methods and Principles in Medicinal Chemistry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Christianson, B., Malcolm, J. (Eds.), 2014. Security Protocols XVIII: 18th International Workshop, Cambridge, UK, March 24-26, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, J., Guan, J., 2012. Constrained Spectral Clustering Using Absorbing Markov Chains, in: Zhou, S., Zhang, S., Karypis, G. (Eds.), Advanced Data Mining and Applications: 8th International Conference, ADMA 2012, Nanjing, China, December 15-18, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 52–63.

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 European Journal of Medical Genetics.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. Electromagnetism Has The Same Strength Across The Universe [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/electromagnetism-has-the-same-strength-across-the-universe/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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. DOD Business Systems Modernization: Continued Investment in Key Accounting Systems Needs to be Justified (No. GAO-03-465). 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

Domec, B.S., 2017. Development, Characterization, and Resultant Properties of a Carbon, Boron, and Chromium Ternary Diffusion System (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

(nyt), S.K., 2002. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Top General In Chechnya Is Fired. New York Times A10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Cattaneo, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Cattaneo, 2015; Kollatschny and Zetzl, 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Kollatschny and Zetzl, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Nowack et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Medical Genetics
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Med. Genet.
ISSN (print)	1769-7212
Scope	Genetics General Medicine Genetics(clinical)