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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Medical 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	Download the output style file
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

Visser AW. Ocean science. Biomixing of the oceans? Science 2007;316:838–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shen Y, Ho LC. The diversity of quasars unified by accretion and orientation. Nature 2014;513:210–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Coumou D, Lehmann J, Beckmann J. Climate change. The weakening summer circulation in the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes. Science 2015;348:324–7.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jablonski D, Roy K, Valentine JW, Price RM, Anderson PS. The impact of the pull of the recent on the history of marine diversity. Science 2003;300:1133–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Donham KJ, Thelin A. Agricultural Medicine. Hoboken, NJ: : John Wiley & Sons, Inc 2016.

An edited book

Miville ML, Ferguson AD, editors. Handbook of Race-Ethnicity and Gender in Psychology. New York, NY: : Springer 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Pitt JI, Hocking AD. Primary Keys and Miscellaneous Fungi. In: Hocking AD, ed. Fungi and Food Spoilage. Boston, MA: : Springer US 2009. 53–143.

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 Medical Genetics.

Blog post

Luntz S. Has The First Dark Matter Particle Been Found? IFLScience. 2014.https://www.iflscience.com/physics/has-first-dark-matter-particle-been-found/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. DOD Education Benefits: Action Is Needed to Ensure Evaluations of Postsecondary Schools Are Useful. Washington, DC: : U.S. Government Printing Office 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

ELBoushi TC. Evaluating ethics training and the outcome on leadership decision making: A phenomenological study. 2010.

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

Walsh MW. Creditors of Stockton Fight City Over Pension Funding While in Bankruptcy. New York Times. 2012;:B3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Medical Genetics
Abbreviation	J. Med. Genet.
ISSN (print)	0022-2593
ISSN (online)	1468-6244
Scope	Genetics Genetics(clinical)