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

Kerbel RS. Antiangiogenic therapy: a universal chemosensitization strategy for cancer? Science 2006;312:1171–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cane MA, Evans M. CLIMATE VARIABILITY: Enhanced: Do the Tropics Rule? Science 2000;290:1107–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hung C-L, Gurarie V, Chin C. From cosmology to cold atoms: observation of Sakharov oscillations in a quenched atomic superfluid. Science 2013;341:1213–5.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang J-B, Cai Z-C, Zhu T-B, Yang W-Y, Müller C. Mechanisms for the retention of inorganic N in acidic forest soils of southern China. Sci Rep 2013;3:2342.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonneau D, Fatu A, Souchet D. Hydrodynamic Bearings. Hoboken, NJ: : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2014.

An edited book

Luch A, editor. Molecular, Clinical and Environmental Toxicology: Volume 2: Clinical Toxicology. Basel: : Birkhäuser 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Naghdi M, Taheran M, Sarma SJ, Brar SK, Ramirez AA, Verma M. Nanotechnology to Remove Contaminants. In: Ranjan S, Dasgupta N, Lichtfouse E, eds. Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture 1. Cham: : Springer International Publishing 2016. 101–28.

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

Andrew E. Supergiant Gas Field In The Mediterranean Doubles Size Record. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/environment/supergiant-gas-field-mediterranean-doubles-size-record/ (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. Space Acquisitions: Challenges Facing DOD as it Changes Approaches to Space Acquisitions. Washington, DC: : U.S. Government Printing Office 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Spralja KP. The intersections of culture and business: An ethnographic study of multicultural second generation young entrepreneurs. 2014.

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

Mazzetti M, Hubbard B. Rise of Young Prince Shatters Decades of Saudi Royal Tradition. New York Times. 2016;:A1.

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)