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

Williams, R., 2011. Biomarkers: warning signs. Nature 475, S5-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

King, C.-Y., Diaz-Avalos, R., 2004. Protein-only transmission of three yeast prion strains. Nature 428, 319–323.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nguyen, T.D., Ehrenfreund, E., Vardeny, Z.V., 2012. Spin-polarized light-emitting diode based on an organic bipolar spin valve. Science 337, 204–209.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chang, C.-I., Chelliah, Y., Borek, D., Mengin-Lecreulx, D., Deisenhofer, J., 2006. Structure of tracheal cytotoxin in complex with a heterodimeric pattern-recognition receptor. Science 311, 1761–1764.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Illian, J., Penttinen, A., Stoyan, H., Stoyan, D., 2008. Statistical Analysis and Modelling of Spatial Point Patterns. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Akiyama, J., 2011. Factors and Factorizations of Graphs: Proof Techniques in Factor Theory, Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Korolev, G.V., Mogilevich, M.M., 2009. Critical Conversion (Gel Point) in Three-Dimensional Free-Radical Polymerization, in: Mogilevich, M.M. (Ed.), Three-Dimensional Free-Radical Polymerization: Cross-Linked and Hyper-Branched Polymers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 129–156.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Is the Universe Ringing Like a Bell? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/universe-ringing-bell/ (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, 2000. Information Technology Management: Small Business Administration Needs Policies and Procedures to Control Key IT Processes (No. T-AIMD-00-260). 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

Vado, P.F., 2012. Foster Care Independence Act of 1999: A policy analysis (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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., 2000. Helping Stamp Collectors and the Postally Confused. New York Times 148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Williams, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (King and Diaz-Avalos, 2004; Williams, 2011).

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

Two authors: (King and Diaz-Avalos, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Chang et al., 2006)

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)