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

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

Cerf VG (2009) The day the Internet age began. Nature 461:1202–1203

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen A, Koehler AN (2015) Drug discovery. Tying up a transcription factor. Science 347:713–714

A journal article with 3 authors

Holm MS, Saravanamurugan S, Taarning E (2010) Conversion of sugars to lactic acid derivatives using heterogeneous zeotype catalysts. Science 328:602–605

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Peltzer N, Darding M, Montinaro A, et al (2018) LUBAC is essential for embryogenesis by preventing cell death and enabling haematopoiesis. Nature 557:112–117

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Van Der Pijl P, Solomon LK, Lokitz J (2016) How To Design a Better Business. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Mark D (2011) Beginning iPhone 4 Development: Exploring the iOS SDK. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Liu Y, Chen L (2013) Control of Chaotic Attitude Motion. In: Chen L (ed) Chaos in Attitude Dynamics of Spacecraft. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 131–163

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 Community Genetics.

Blog post

Andrews R (2015) Firefighter Receives World’s Most Extensive Face Transplant. 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 (2004) Project SAFECOM: Key Cross-Agency Emergency Communications Effort Requires Stronger Collaboration. 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

Holbert M (2010) Knowledge is power (KIP): Kinship caregiver support group program curriculum. 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

McAULEY J (2016) The Artists and Their Alley. New York Times M2178

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cerf 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Cerf 2009; Chen and Koehler 2015).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Koehler 2015)
Three or more authors: (Peltzer et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Community Genetics
Abbreviation	J. Community Genet.
ISSN (print)	1868-310X
ISSN (online)	1868-6001
Scope	Epidemiology Genetics(clinical) Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health