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

Sarewitz, D., 2010. World view: Defending democracy. Nature 465, 546.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gurdon, J.B., Melton, D.A., 2008. Nuclear reprogramming in cells. Science 322, 1811–1815.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gerstner, W., Sprekeler, H., Deco, G., 2012. Theory and simulation in neuroscience. Science 338, 60–65.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tsintzos, S.I., Pelekanos, N.T., Konstantinidis, G., Hatzopoulos, Z., Savvidis, P.G., 2008. A GaAs polariton light-emitting diode operating near room temperature. Nature 453, 372–375.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chateigner, D., 2013. Combined Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kliemann, L., Sanders, P. (Eds.), 2016. Algorithm Engineering: Selected Results and Surveys, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Krogstie, J., 2013. Evaluating Data Quality for Integration of Data Sources, in: Grabis, J., Kirikova, M., Zdravkovic, J., Stirna, J. (Eds.), The Practice of Enterprise Modeling: 6th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference, PoEM 2013, Riga, Latvia, November 6-7, 2013, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 39–53.

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., 2017. New Asteroid Is Orbiting Jupiter And The Sun The Wrong Way Around [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2012. Review of FAA’s Collegiate Training Initiative as Mandated in the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (No. GAO-12-996R). 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

Talice, K.W., 2017. An Assessment of Veterans Affairs Healthcare Leadership Competencies (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Powell, M., 2017. The Provocateur President Meets Athletes’ Resolve. New York Times SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sarewitz, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Gurdon and Melton, 2008; Sarewitz, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Gurdon and Melton, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Tsintzos et al., 2008)

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)