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

Schiermeier Q (2003) Researchers rattled as Kyoto Protocol hangs in the balance. Nature 423:792

A journal article with 2 authors

Fuchs-Schündeln N, Schündeln M (2015) Political economy. On the endogeneity of political preferences: evidence from individual experience with democracy. Science 347:1145–1148

A journal article with 3 authors

Giles S, Friedman M, Brazeau MD (2015) Osteichthyan-like cranial conditions in an Early Devonian stem gnathostome. Nature 520:82–85

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Temirov R, Soubatch S, Luican A, Tautz FS (2006) Free-electron-like dispersion in an organic monolayer film on a metal substrate. Nature 444:350–353

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Montgomery GE, Schuch HC (2007) GIS Data Conversion Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Purvis M (2006) Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax: From Novice to Professional. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Beardall J, Raven JA (2016) Carbon Acquisition by Microalgae. In: Borowitzka MA, Beardall J, Raven JA (eds) The Physiology of Microalgae. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 89–99

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

Andrew E (2015) Viruses May Play Vital Role In Brain Function. 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 (1995) Denver International Airport. 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

Locicero LM (2014) The Effects of Vertical Casting Position in Reinforced Concrete. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

The following scouting report on the Oakland Athletics was prepared by Tom Kelly, The Manager of The, with the editorial assistance of Michael Martinez (1988) This Team Flattens Opponents. New York Times D17

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier 2003; Fuchs-Schündeln and Schündeln 2015).

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

Two authors: (Fuchs-Schündeln and Schündeln 2015)
Three or more authors: (Temirov et al. 2006)

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