How to format your references using the Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers (GTMB). 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

Smil V V. Jumbo. Nature 2000;406(6793):239.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chokshi DA and Farley TA. Health. Changing Behaviors to Prevent Noncommunicable Diseases. Science 2014;345(6202):1243–1244.

A journal article with 3 authors

Molnar P, Houseman GA and England PC. Earth Science: Palaeo-Altimetry of Tibet. Nature 2006;444(7117):E4; discussion E4-5.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Katayama Y, Mizutani T, Utsumi W, et al. A First-Order Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition in Phosphorus. Nature 2000;403(6766):170–173.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chapman BR and Bolen EG. Ecology of North America. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2015.

An edited book

Greenwood PL, Bell AW, Vercoe PE, et al., (eds). Managing the Prenatal Environment to Enhance Livestock Productivity. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Romero C, Garcia-Valdez M and Alanis A. A Comparative Study of Blog Comments Spam Filtering with Machine Learning Techniques. In: Soft Computing for Recognition Based on Biometrics. (Melin P, Kacprzyk J, and Pedrycz W. eds). Studies in Computational Intelligence Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2010; pp. 57–72.

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 Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers.

Blog post

Andrew E. Researchers Narrow In On Common Cystic Fibrosis Infection. IFLScience; 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-narrow-common-cystic-fibrosis-infection/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office. Aviation Security: Preliminary Observations on TSA’s Progress to Allow Airports to Use Private Passenger and Baggage Screening Services. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stevens W. Using Emotional Intelligence as a Leadership Strategy to Make Good Leaders Great. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ; 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

Fitzsimmons EG and Buettner R. Rail Crossing Accidents Decline Nationwide, but Less So in New York Region. New York Times 2015;A22.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Smil, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Chokshi and Farley, 2014; Smil, 2000).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Chokshi and Farley, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Katayama et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers
ISSN (print)	1945-0265
ISSN (online)	1945-0257
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