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

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

Gupta, S., 2015. From gadgets to the smart grid. Nature 526, S90-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tripati, A., Elderfield, H., 2005. Deep-sea temperature and circulation changes at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Science 308, 1894–1898.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berson, D.M., Dunn, F.A., Takao, M., 2002. Phototransduction by retinal ganglion cells that set the circadian clock. Science 295, 1070–1073.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Smirnov, D.A., Morley, M., Shin, E., Spielman, R.S., Cheung, V.G., 2009. Genetic analysis of radiation-induced changes in human gene expression. Nature 459, 587–591.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gable, J., Herrmann, T., 2016. Counselling Skills for Dietitians. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Freksa, C., Knauff, M., Krieg-Brückner, B., Nebel, B., Barkowsky, T. (Eds.), 2005. Spatial Cognition IV. Reasoning, Action, Interaction: International Conference Spatial Cognition 2004, Frauenchiemsee, Germany, October 11-13, 2004, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Manfredi, G., Devy, M., Sidobre, D., 2015. Textured Object Recognition: Balancing Model Robustness and Complexity, in: Azzopardi, G., Petkov, N. (Eds.), Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns: 16th International Conference, CAIP 2015, Valletta, Malta, September 2-4, 2015 Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 52–63.

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 Genetics and Genomics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Triassic Mass Extinction May Give Clues On How Oceans Will Be Affected By Climate Change [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/triassic-mass-extinction-may-give-clues-how-oceans-will-be-affected-climate/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1997. Transportation Infrastructure: States’ Implementation of Transportation Management Systems (No. T-RCED-97-79). 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

Ortega, R., 2012. Effects of cultural and linguistic differences in breast cancer screening behaviors among elderly Latina women (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Quain, J.R., 2017. Your Car May Soon Be Able to Read Your Face. New York Times B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gupta, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gupta, 2015; Tripati and Elderfield, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Tripati and Elderfield, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Smirnov et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Genetics and Genomics
Abbreviation	J. Genet. Genomics
ISSN (print)	1673-8527
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology