How to format your references using the Biomarkers and Genomic Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biomarkers and Genomic Medicine. 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 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

Hodges A. Computer science. Beyond Turing’s machines. Science. 2012;336(6078):163-164.

A journal article with 2 authors

Minton DA, Malhotra R. A record of planet migration in the main asteroid belt. Nature. 2009;457(7233):1109-1111.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takano A, Endo T, Yoshihisa T. tRNA actively shuttles between the nucleus and cytosol in yeast. Science. 2005;309(5731):140-142.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lee JW, Beebe K, Nangle LA, et al. Editing-defective tRNA synthetase causes protein misfolding and neurodegeneration. Nature. 2006;443(7107):50-55.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jackson J. Political Oratory and Cartooning. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Ganghoffer JF, Pastrone F, eds. Mechanics of Microstructured Solids: Cellular Materials, Fibre Reinforced Solids and Soft Tissues. Vol 46. Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Brewer HB. High-Density Lipoprotein Metabolism. In: Grundy SM, ed. Atlas of Atherosclerosis and Metabolic Syndrome. Springer; 2011:93-111.

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 Biomarkers and Genomic Medicine.

Blog post

Luntz S. Bizarre New Species Of Giant Jellyfish Discovered. IFLScience. August 10, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bizarre-new-species-giant-jellyfish-discovered/

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. Public Radio and the Role of Federal Funding. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Thomas-Whitman D. Treading Water: Civic Engagement Efforts in a Time of Budget Crisis at a Public University. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Apuzzo M, Schmidt MS. White House Tries Civility With Mueller. New York Times. October 7, 2017:A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Biomarkers and Genomic Medicine
ISSN (print)	2214-0247
Scope	General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Biomedical Engineering General Medicine Drug Discovery