How to format your references using the Genome citation style

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

Chan, M.H.W. 2008. Supersolidity. Science 319(5867): 1207–1209.

A journal article with 2 authors

Solé, R., and Macía, J. 2014. Synthetic biology: Biocircuits in synchrony. Nature 508(7496): 326–327.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bakshy, E., Messing, S., and Adamic, L.A. 2015. Political science. Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook. Science 348(6239): 1130–1132.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bergeron, D.E., Roach, P.J., Castleman, A.W., Jr, Jones, N.O., and Khanna, S.N. 2005. Al cluster superatoms as halogens in polyhalides and as alkaline earths in iodide salts. Science 307(5707): 231–235.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wolbarst, A.B., Capasso, P., and Wyant, A.R. 2013. Medical Imaging. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gopalakrishnan, K., Khaitan, S.K., and Kalogirou, S. (Editors). 2011. Soft Computing in Green and Renewable Energy Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Heaslip, G., Haavisto, I., and Kovács, G. 2016. Cash as a Form of Relief. In Advances in Managing Humanitarian Operations. Edited by C.W. Zobel, N. Altay, and M.P. Haselkorn. Springer International Publishing, Cham. pp. 59–78.

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.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014, November 3. New Device Helps Facilitate Communication Between Humans and Dogs. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-device-helps-facilitate-communication-between-humans-and-dogs/ [accessed 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. 1977. Proposed Legislation to Fund and Establish a Nonprofit National Center for Long-Term Environmental Research. 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

Morissette, T.M. 2009. Elder friendliness and social participation of older adults living within age-segregated retirement communities. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Zauzmer, B. 2017, February 21. Who Will Win Best Song? Popularity Helps. New York Times: AR27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chan 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Chan 2008; Solé and Macía 2014).

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

Two authors: (Solé and Macía 2014)
Three or more authors: (Bergeron et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Genome
Abbreviation	Genome
ISSN (print)	0831-2796
ISSN (online)	1480-3321
Scope	Biotechnology Genetics Molecular Biology General Medicine