How to format your references using the Genome Announcements citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Genome Announcements. 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

Bascompte J. 2010. Ecology. Structure and dynamics of ecological networks. Science 329:765–766.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grubb MS, Burrone J. 2010. Activity-dependent relocation of the axon initial segment fine-tunes neuronal excitability. Nature 465:1070–1074.

A journal article with 3 authors

Csankovszki G, McDonel P, Meyer BJ. 2004. Recruitment and spreading of the C. elegans dosage compensation complex along X chromosomes. Science 303:1182–1185.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Treiner E, Duban L, Bahram S, Radosavljevic M, Wanner V, Tilloy F, Affaticati P, Gilfillan S, Lantz O. 2003. Selection of evolutionarily conserved mucosal-associated invariant T cells by MR1. Nature 422:164–169.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Radcliff PB. 2017. Modern Spain. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Wang Z. 2014. Simultaneous Multi-Pollutants Removal in Flue Gas by Ozone. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Miclaus GD, Ples H. 2014. Coronary Angiography, p. 85–129. In Ples, H (ed.), Atlas of CT Angiography: Normal and Pathologic Findings. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Genome Announcements.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. Fossilized Plants Describe Evolution of Prehistoric Ecosystems. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved 30 October 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. 1994. Space Shuttle: NASA’s Plans for Repairing or Replacing a Damaged or Destroyed Orbiter. NSIAD-94-197. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bernstine JT. 2015. Experiences of Students Transferring from Community and Technical Colleges to a Private Nonprofit University. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Kishkovsky S. 2006. <hl2 class=. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

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	Genome Announcements
Abbreviation	Genome Announc.
ISSN (online)	2169-8287
Scope