How to format your references using the Journal of Genetic Counseling citation style

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

Gittis, A. (2012). Eppendorf finalist. Striatal interneurons: causes of or cures for movement disorders? Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6103), 59.

A journal article with 2 authors

Huybers, P., & Wunsch, C. (2005). Obliquity pacing of the late Pleistocene glacial terminations. Nature, 434(7032), 491–494.

A journal article with 3 authors

Poulsen, C. J., Tabor, C., & White, J. D. (2015). CLIMATE CHANGE. Long-term climate forcing by atmospheric oxygen concentrations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6240), 1238–1241.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Milde, S., Fox, A. N., Freeman, M. R., & Coleman, M. P. (2013). Deletions within its subcellular targeting domain enhance the axon protective capacity of Nmnat2 in vivo. Scientific reports, 3, 2567.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Palmquist, S. R. (2015). Comprehensive Commentary on Kant’s Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Preedy, V. R. (Ed.). (2012). Handbook of hair in health and disease (Vol. 1). Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Toben, T., Eilers, S., Kuka, C., Schweigert, S., Winkelmann, H., & Ruehrup, S. (2012). Safe Autonomous Transport Vehicles in Heterogeneous Outdoor Environments. In R. Hähnle, J. Knoop, T. Margaria, D. Schreiner, & B. Steffen (Eds.), Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification, and Validation: International Workshops, SARS 2011 and MLSC 2011, Held Under the Auspices of ISoLA 2011 in Vienna, Austria, October 17-18, 2011. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 61–75). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Genetic Counseling.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 27). Resurgent Pine Martens Could Be Good News For Red Squirrels. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/resurgent-pine-martens-could-be-good-news-red-squirrels/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1979). Better Cash Management Can Reduce the Cost of the National Direct Student Loan Program (No. FGMSD-80-5). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Nunn, T. N. (2014). A Puer–Senex Archetypal Model of the Therapeutic Relationship (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Chapman, M. M., & Vlasic, B. (2012, July 31). Strong Domestic Sales Help Lift Chrysler’s Results. New York Times, p. B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gittis 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Gittis 2012; Huybers and Wunsch 2005).

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

Two authors: (Huybers and Wunsch 2005)
Three or more authors: (Milde et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Genetic Counseling
Abbreviation	J. Genet. Couns.
ISSN (print)	1059-7700
ISSN (online)	1573-3599
Scope	Genetics(clinical)