How to format your references using the Genetics and Molecular Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Genetics and Molecular Biology. 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

Triendl R (2000) Japan’s cloning ban will allow stem cell experiments. Nature 404:321.

A journal article with 2 authors

Farrow T and Vedral V (2014) Scale-estimation of quantum coherent energy transport in multiple-minima systems. Sci Rep 4:5520.

A journal article with 3 authors

Feldon DF, Maher MA and Timmerman BE (2010) Graduate education. Performance-based data in the study of STEM Ph.D. education. Science 329:282–283.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Forsgren E, Amundsen T, Borg AA and Bjelvenmark J (2004) Unusually dynamic sex roles in a fish. Nature 429:551–554.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety (1995) Guidelines for Safe Storage and Handling of Reactive Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Nejdl W, Kay J, Pu P and Herder E (2008) Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems: 5th International Conference, AH 2008, Hannover, Germany, July 29 - August 1, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Jing Y and Wang G (2013) Western Political Research Approaches and the Development of Political Science Methodology in China. In: Guo S (ed) Political Science and Chinese Political Studies: The State of the Field. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 85–102

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 Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2016) Fossil Fuel Emissions Have Stalled: Global Carbon Budget 2016. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/fossil-fuel-emissions-have-stalled-global-carbon-budget/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2016) Intellectual Property: Patent Office Should Define Quality, Reassess Incentives, and Improve Clarity. 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

Lama N (2017) Optimized Veterinary Thermographic Image Classification using Support Vector Machines and Noise Mitigation. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Kishkovsky S (2003) New Kirov Home in Golden Glass. New York Times E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Triendl 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Triendl 2000; Farrow and Vedral 2014).

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

Two authors: (Farrow and Vedral 2014)
Three or more authors: (Forsgren et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Genetics and Molecular Biology
Abbreviation	Genet. Mol. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1415-4757
ISSN (online)	1678-4685
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology