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

Chang J. 2015. Core services: Reward bioinformaticians. Nature. 520(7546):151–152.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miller MW, Williams ES. 2003. Prion disease: horizontal prion transmission in mule deer. Nature. 425(6953):35–36.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scarano F, Guimarães A, da Silva JM. 2012. Rio+20: Lead by example. Nature. 486(7401):25–26.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wang Z, Smith KS, Murphy M, Piloto O, Somervaille TCP, Cleary ML. 2008. Glycogen synthase kinase 3 in MLL leukaemia maintenance and targeted therapy. Nature. 455(7217):1205–1209.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rushton A. 2011. VHDL for Logic Synthesis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Daillant J, Gibaud A, editors. 2009. X-ray and Neutron Reflectivity: Principles and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (Lecture Notes in Physics).

A chapter in an edited book

Shapiro S. 2006. Effectiveness. In: Benthem J van, Heinzmann G, Rebuschi M, Visser H, editors. The Age of Alternative Logics: Assessing Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics Today. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. p. 37–49.

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. 2017 Jan 6. Doctors Discover How To Manipulate Wounds To Regenerate Into Skin Rather Than Scar Tissue. IFLScience. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/doctors-discover-how-to-manipulate-wounds-to-regenerate-into-skin-rather-than-scar-tissue/.

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. DISH Network Complied with the Court-Appointed Special Master’s Examination of Its Compliance with the Section 119 Statutory License. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: GAO-13-169R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Knudsen E. 2014. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder empowerment program: A grant project [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: 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

Hollander S. 2002 Nov 20. Colleges Like Sarah Lawrence Are Putting Poets in Motion. New York Times.:D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chang 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Miller and Williams 2003; Chang 2015).

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

Two authors: (Miller and Williams 2003)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2008)

About the journal

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