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

Barouch DH. Challenges in the development of an HIV-1 vaccine. Nature 2008;455:613–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dominguez-Villar M, Hafler DA. Immunology. An innate role for IL-17. Science 2011;332:47–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ooi SL, Shoemaker DD, Boeke JD. A DNA microarray-based genetic screen for nonhomologous end-joining mutants in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Science 2001;294:2552–6.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jaakola V-P, Griffith MT, Hanson MA, Cherezov V, Chien EYT, Lane JR, Ijzerman AP, Stevens RC. The 2.6 angstrom crystal structure of a human A2A adenosine receptor bound to an antagonist. Science 2008;322:1211–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Armajani J. Modern Islamist Movements. Oxford, UK: : Wiley-Blackwell 2011.

An edited book

Lokuciejewski P. Worst-Case Execution Time Aware Compilation Techniques for Real-Time Systems. Dordrecht: : Springer Netherlands 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Imbert P. Multiple Multiculturalisms: Resentment, Religion and Liberalism. In: Mansouri F, ed. Cultural, Religious and Political Contestations: The Multicultural Challenge. Cham: : Springer International Publishing 2015. 49–67.

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

Hale T. Watch The Moment A Great White Shark Jumped Into A Cage With A Diver. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-the-moment-a-great-white-shark-jumped-into-a-cage-with-a-diver/ (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. Computer Systems: Actions on OMB Recommendations for a Joint Lookout System. Washington, DC: : U.S. Government Printing Office 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Estrada MI. A community risk assessment of the 90806 zip code. 2012.

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

Detrick B. Following a Giant’s Flamin’ Hot Footsteps. New York Times. 2017;:ST8.

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)