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

Yin, Q.-Z. (2004). Planetary science. Predicting the Sun’s oxygen isotope composition. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5691), 1729–1730.

A journal article with 2 authors

Haussecker, D., & Kay, M. A. (2015). RNA interference. Drugging RNAi. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6226), 1069–1070.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weston, C. R., Lambright, D. G., & Davis, R. J. (2002). Signal transduction. MAP kinase signaling specificity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5577), 2345–2347.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Safina, C., Rosenberg, A. A., Myers, R. A., Quinn, T. J., 2nd, & Collie, J. S. (2005). Oceans. U.S. ocean fish recovery: staying the course. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5735), 707–708.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Good, P. I., & Hardin, J. W. (2012). Common Errors in Statistics (And How to Avoid Them). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Adler, R. A. (Ed.). (2010). Osteoporosis: Pathophysiology and Clinical Management. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Locher, P., & Haenni, R. (2015). Verifiable Internet Elections with Everlasting Privacy and Minimal Trust. In R. Haenni, R. E. Koenig, & D. Wikström (Eds.), E-Voting and Identity: 5th International Conference, VoteID 2015, Bern, Switzerland, September 2-4, 2015, Proceedings (pp. 74–91). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrews, R. (2016, August 30). Regularly Reading Books Prolongs Your Life By Up To Two Years. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/regularly-reading-books-prolongs-life-two-years/. 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. (2003). Information Technology Training: Practices of Leading Private-Sector Companies (No. GAO-03-390). 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

Patel, V. M. (2010). Sparse and redundant representations for inverse problems and recognition (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Ortved, J. (2017, September 12). Shifting Focus To Men’s Shoes. New York Times, p. D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yin 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Haussecker and Kay 2015; Yin 2004).

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

Two authors: (Haussecker and Kay 2015)
Three or more authors: (Safina et al. 2005)

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)