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

Foster I (2005) Service-oriented science. Science 308:814–817

A journal article with 2 authors

Gui C, Wang J (2014) Silicon-organic hybrid slot waveguide based three-input multicasted optical hexadecimal addition/subtraction. Sci Rep 4:7491

A journal article with 3 authors

Martin-Lluesma S, Stucke VM, Nigg EA (2002) Role of Hec1 in spindle checkpoint signaling and kinetochore recruitment of Mad1/Mad2. Science 297:2267–2270

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Deborde S, Perret E, Gravotta D, et al (2008) Clathrin is a key regulator of basolateral polarity. Nature 452:719–723

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abid MM (2006) Spacecraft Sensors. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Montani S, Jain LC (eds) (2010) Successful Case-based Reasoning Applications - I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Scheider S (2009) The Case for Grounding Databases. In: Janowicz K, Raubal M, Levashkin S (eds) GeoSpatial Semantics: Third International Conference, GeoS 2009, Mexico City, Mexico, December 3-4, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 44–62

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 D (2016) Is It Safe To Wash My Hands, Doctor? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/is-it-safe-to-wash-my-hands-doctor/. 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 (1969) An Approach to the Audit of Research and Development Activities. 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

Nagarajan S (2009) Migration, remittances, and household health: Evidence from South Africa. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Greenhouse L (2006) Court Rejects Interpretation Of Immigration Drug Law. New York Times A22

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Foster 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Foster 2005; Gui and Wang 2014).

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

Two authors: (Gui and Wang 2014)
Three or more authors: (Deborde et al. 2008)

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