How to format your references using the Algorithms for Molecular Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Algorithms for Molecular Biology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

1. Haldeman J. Brochure. The apocalypse: a great day out for the whole family. Nature. 2000;405:401.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Maser RS, DePinho RA. Connecting chromosomes, crisis, and cancer. Science. 2002;297:565–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Childers SE, Ciufo S, Lovley DR. Geobacter metallireducens accesses insoluble Fe(III) oxide by chemotaxis. Nature. 2002;416:767–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Afyon S, Krumeich F, Mensing C, Borgschulte A, Nesper R. New high capacity cathode materials for rechargeable Li-ion batteries: vanadate-borate glasses. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7113.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Tibergien M, Pomering R. Practice Made (More) Perfect. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Plemenos D, Miaoulis G, editors. Intelligent Computer Graphics 2010. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Geniusas S. On Birth, Death, and Sleep in Husserl’s Late Manuscripts on Time. In: Lohmar D, Yamaguchi I, editors. On Time - New Contributions to the Husserlian Phenomenology of Time. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. p. 71–89.

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 Algorithms for Molecular Biology.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Evidence For Ancient Wet Martian Environment Hints At Habitats For Life [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/ancient-wet-martian-environment-revealed-widespread-excavated-carbonate-rocks/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Indian Affairs: Key Actions Needed to Ensure Safety and Health at Indian School Facilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Mar. Report No.: GAO-16-313.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Obiedat M. Incrementally Sorted Lattice Data Structures [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2015.

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

1. Kelly C. The Sailors Of Winter: In the Cold, Cold Sea. New York Times. 1999 Mar 7;812.

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	Algorithms for Molecular Biology
Abbreviation	Algorithms Mol. Biol.
ISSN (online)	1748-7188
Scope	Molecular Biology Structural Biology Computational Theory and Mathematics Applied Mathematics