How to format your references using the Genetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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

Appelbaum F. R., 2012 Retrospective. E. Donnall Thomas (1920-2012). Science 338: 1163.

A journal article with 2 authors

Friedman N., and M. Schuldiner, 2010 Genetics. The DNA damage road map. Science 330: 1327–1328.

A journal article with 3 authors

Murphy R. A., E. Mondragón, and V. A. Murphy, 2008 Rule learning by rats. Science 319: 1849–1851.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Luo Z., Q. Zhang, Y. Oderaotoshi, and D. P. Curran, 2001 Fluorous mixture synthesis: a fluorous-tagging strategy for the synthesis and separation of mixtures of organic compounds. Science 291: 1766–1769.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perl J., and T. R. DeMark, 2010 DeMark Indicators. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Pons J. L., and D. Torricelli (Eds.), 2014 Emerging Therapies in Neurorehabilitation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Garvis S., and A. K. Tekin, 2016 A Comparative Study of Early Childhood Teacher self-efficacy for arts Education in Australia and Oman, pp. 71–85 in Asia-Pacific Perspectives on Teacher Self-Efficacy, edited by Garvis S., Pendergast D. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

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.

Blog post

Andrews R., 2017 NASA Wants To Transform The Sun Into A Insanely Powerful Telescope. 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, 1990 Competitiveness: The Challenge of the Deficit. 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

Simone P. S., 2012 A mixed methods study of culturally proficient practices in an elementary school

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

Paulson M., and S. Deb, 2017 How Outrage Built Over a Shakespearean Depiction of Trump. New York Times A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Appelbaum 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Friedman and Schuldiner 2010; Appelbaum 2012).

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

Two authors: (Friedman and Schuldiner 2010)
Three or more authors: (Luo et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Genetics
Abbreviation	Genetics
ISSN (print)	0016-6731
ISSN (online)	1943-2631
Scope	Genetics