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

Stith, J. E. 2000. When I was your age. Nature 407: 23.

A journal article with 2 authors

Correia, Alexandre C. M., and Jacques Laskar. 2004. Mercury’s capture into the 3/2 spin-orbit resonance as a result of its chaotic dynamics. Nature 429: 848–850.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aoi, Shin, Takashi Kunugi, and Hiroyuki Fujiwara. 2008. Trampoline effect in extreme ground motion. Science (New York, N.Y.) 322: 727–730.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Blisniuk, P. M., B. R. Hacker, J. Glodny, L. Ratschbacher, S. Bi, Z. Wu, M. O. McWilliams, and A. Calvert. 2001. Normal faulting in central Tibet since at least 13.5 Myr ago. Nature 412: 628–632.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McDonnell, Gerald, and Denise Sheard. 2012. A Practical Guide to Decontamination in Healthcare. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Gómez-Pérez, Asunción, Yong Yu, and Ying Ding, ed. 2009. The Semantic Web: Fourth Asian Conference, ASWC 2009, Shanghai, China, December 6-9, 2009. Proceedings. Vol. 5926. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, Jo Chiung Hua, and Hong An Wu. 2013. Aesthetic Creativity: Bridging Arts, Culture, and Education. In Creative Arts in Education and Culture: Perspectives from Greater China, ed. Samuel Leong and Bo Wah Leung, 43–53. Landscapes: The Arts, Aesthetics, and Education. 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

Fang, Janet. 2015. How “SuperAger” Brains Are Different Than Everyone Else’s. IFLScience. IFLScience. February 4.

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. 2014. James Webb Space Telescope: Project Facing Increased Schedule Risk with Significant Work Remaining. GAO-15-100. 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

Pappenfus, Barbara J. 2013. How frequency of change within organizations affects burnout of human resource professionals. Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: 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

Kenigsberg, Ben. 2017. Whitney: Can I Be Me. New York Times, August 17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stith 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Stith 2000; Correia and Laskar 2004).

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

Two authors: (Correia and Laskar 2004)
Three or more authors: (Blisniuk et al. 2001)

About the journal

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