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

Thomas DJ (2004) Evidence for deep-water production in the North Pacific Ocean during the early Cenozoic warm interval. Nature 430:65–68

A journal article with 2 authors

Crone TJ, Tolstoy M (2010) Magnitude of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil leak. Science 330:634

A journal article with 3 authors

Long SB, Casey PJ, Beese LS (2002) Reaction path of protein farnesyltransferase at atomic resolution. Nature 419:645–650

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hla T, Lee MJ, Ancellin N, et al (2001) Lysophospholipids--receptor revelations. Science 294:1875–1878

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goldstein LSB, Schneider M (2010) Stem Cells for Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Marshall AW (2011) Inequalities: Theory of Majorization and Its Applications, Second. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Wang K-L, Hsieh Y-M, Liu C-N, et al (2015) Using Motion Sensor for Landslide Monitoring and Hazard Mitigation. In: Leung H, Chandra Mukhopadhyay S (eds) Intelligent Environmental Sensing. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 111–127

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

O`Callaghan J (2016) Scientists Just Released The World’s Largest Digital Sky Survey. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-just-released-the-worlds-largest-digital-sky-survey/. 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 (1994) Technology Transfer: Improving the Use of Cooperative R&D Agreements at DOE’s Contractor-Operated Laboratories. 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

Karch K (2014) An investigation of perceptions about smart mobile phone usage as an instructional tool in a high school classroom. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Witz B, Pilon M (2014) Stars’ Newest Must-Have Item: The Clippers. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Thomas 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Thomas 2004; Crone and Tolstoy 2010).

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

Two authors: (Crone and Tolstoy 2010)
Three or more authors: (Hla et al. 2001)

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