How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Genetics citation style

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

Crabtree RH (2007) Chemistry. No protection required. Science 318:756–757

A journal article with 2 authors

Korup O, Montgomery DR (2008) Tibetan plateau river incision inhibited by glacial stabilization of the Tsangpo gorge. Nature 455:786–789

A journal article with 3 authors

Griffin DM, Hoffman DS, Strick PL (2015) Corticomotoneuronal cells are “functionally tuned.” Science 350:667–670

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Queller DC, Ponte E, Bozzaro S, Strassmann JE (2003) Single-gene greenbeard effects in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. Science 299:105–106

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lavagnini I, Magno F, Seraglia R, Traldi P (2006) Quantitative Applications of Mass Spectrometry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Petkov V (ed) (2010) Space, Time, and Spacetime: Physical and Philosophical Implications of Minkowski’s Unification of Space and Time. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Wilzeck C, Kelly DM (2013) Avian Visual Pseudoneglect: The Effect of Age and Sex on Visuospatial Side Biases. In: Csermely D, Regolin L (eds) Behavioral Lateralization in Vertebrates: Two Sides of the Same Coin. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 55–70

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 Journal of Applied Genetics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) New York Medical Examiners Not Required To Return All Organs, Court Rules. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-york-medical-examiners-not-required-return-all-organs-court-rules/. 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 (2002) Information Concerning the Arming of Commercial Pilots. 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

Dang H (2010) The cummulative incidence estimate versus the Kaplan Meier method in medical research. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Loomis G (2012) Rossini and Contemporaries, Snuggly at Home in the Black Forest. New York Times 0

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crabtree 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Crabtree 2007; Korup and Montgomery 2008).

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

Two authors: (Korup and Montgomery 2008)
Three or more authors: (Queller et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Genetics
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Genet.
ISSN (print)	1234-1983
ISSN (online)	2190-3883
Scope	Genetics General Medicine