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

von Bergmann K (2015) Physics. Magnetic bubbles with a twist. Science 349:234–235

A journal article with 2 authors

Gurdon JB, Bourillot PY (2001) Morphogen gradient interpretation. Nature 413:797–803

A journal article with 3 authors

Frederickson ME, Greene MJ, Gordon DM (2005) Ecology: “Devil’s gardens” bedevilled by ants. Nature 437:495–496

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Collison LW, Workman CJ, Kuo TT, et al (2007) The inhibitory cytokine IL-35 contributes to regulatory T-cell function. Nature 450:566–569

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stein RL (2011) Kinetics of Enzyme Action. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sojka P, Horák A, Kopeček I, Pala K (eds) (2008) Text, Speech and Dialogue: 11th International Conference, TSD 2008, Brno, Czech Republic, September 8-12, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Misra P, Viswakarma N, Reddy JK (2013) Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-α Signaling in Hepatocarcinogenesis. In: del Río LA (ed) Peroxisomes and their Key Role in Cellular Signaling and Metabolism. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 77–99

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

Hale T (2015) The World’s First Wi-Fi Pavement Is Being Piloted In The UK. In: IFLScience. 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 (2000) Federal Rulemaking: Agencies’ Use of Information Technology to Facilitate Public Participation. 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

Hansell L (2017) Perceptions of Supervisor Ethical Behavior by Psychology Interns. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Tate J (2017) The Afterlife. New York Times MM17

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (von Bergmann 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gurdon and Bourillot 2001; von Bergmann 2015).

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

Two authors: (Gurdon and Bourillot 2001)
Three or more authors: (Collison et al. 2007)

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