How to format your references using the G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for G3: Genes, Genomes, 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Rodriguez, J., 2004 Recruiters and industry. Rules of engagement. Nature 429: 486.

A journal article with 2 authors

King, D. A., and S. M. Thomas, 2007 Science and government. Taking science out of the box--foresight recast. Science 316: 1701–1702.

A journal article with 3 authors

Navarro-González, R., C. P. McKay, and D. N. Mvondo, 2001 A possible nitrogen crisis for Archaean life due to reduced nitrogen fixation by lightning. Nature 412: 61–64.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Saenz, S. A., M. C. Siracusa, J. G. Perrigoue, S. P. Spencer, J. F. Urban Jr et al., 2010 IL25 elicits a multipotent progenitor cell population that promotes T(H)2 cytokine responses. Nature 464: 1362–1366.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Canham, J., and J. Bennett, 2008 Mentorship in Community Nursing: Challenges and Opportunities. Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Pham, H. (Ed.), 2008 Recent Advances in Reliability and Quality in Design. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Lindquist, S., and K. L. Allendoerfer, 2009 Simple Cellular Solutions to Complex Problems, pp. 41–57 in Intracellular Traffic and Neurodegenerative Disorders, edited by P. H. S. George-Hyslop, W. C. C. Mobley, and Y. Christen. Research and Perspectives in Alzheimer’s Disease, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2015 Incredible Preservation Of 125-Million-Year-Old Mammal Shows Soft Tissues And Hair. IFLScience.

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, 2006 Air Traffic Control Modernization: Status of the Current Program and Planning for the Next Generation Air Transportation System: U.S. Government Printing Office GAO-06-653T.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Horn, S. W., 2008 Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Accusative-Quotative Constructions in Japanese [Doctoral dissertation]: Ohio State University.

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

Vecsey, G., 2011 U.S. Coach Doesn’t Play the Superstar Card. New York Times B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rodriguez 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Rodriguez 2004; King and Thomas 2007).

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

Two authors: (King and Thomas 2007)
Three or more authors: (Saenz et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
Abbreviation	G3 (Bethesda)
ISSN (online)	2160-1836
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology Genetics(clinical)