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

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

Kogleck, Larissa. 2015. Building a powerhouse. Nature 528: S166-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Elser, James, and Elena Bennett. 2011. Phosphorus cycle: A broken biogeochemical cycle. Nature 478: 29–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mayr, Gerald, Burkhard Pohl, and D. Stefan Peters. 2005. A well-preserved Archaeopteryx specimen with theropod features. Science (New York, N.Y.) 310: 1483–1486.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Breton, Rene P., Victoria M. Kaspi, Michael Kramer, Maura A. McLaughlin, Maxim Lyutikov, Scott M. Ransom, Ingrid H. Stairs, Robert D. Ferdman, Fernando Camilo, and Andrea Possenti. 2008. Relativistic spin precession in the double pulsar. Science (New York, N.Y.) 321: 104–107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adhikari, Sadhan K. 2005. Variational Principles and the Numerical Solution of Scattering Problems. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Gibbons, Jeremy, ed. 2012. Generic and Indexed Programming: International Spring School, SSGIP 2010, Oxford, UK, March 22-26, 2010, Revised Lectures. Vol. 7470. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Seeling, Patrick, Frank H. P. Fitzek, and Martin Reisslein. 2007. Metrics and Statistics for Video Traces. In Video Traces for Network Performance Evaluation: A Comprehensive Overview and Guide on Video Traces and Their Utilization in Networking Research, ed. Frank H. P. Fitzek and Martin Reisslein, 45–58. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. Current Extinction Rate 10 Times Worse Than Previously Thought. IFLScience. IFLScience. September 3.

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. 1999. Critical Infrastructure Protection: Comprehensive Strategy Can Draw on Year 2000 Experiences. AIMD-00-1. 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

Bentley, Kate J. 2016. Modern Public Market to Revitalize a Small Community. Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Williams, John. 2016. Books by Clare Beams, Hans Herbert Grimm, April Ayers Lawson and Kelly Luce. New York Times, November 30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kogleck 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Elser and Bennett 2011; Kogleck 2015).

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

Two authors: (Elser and Bennett 2011)
Three or more authors: (Breton et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Genetics
ISSN (print)	0022-1333
ISSN (online)	0973-7731
Scope