How to format your references using the Genome Research citation style

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

Gonzalez C. 2001. Undergraduate research, graduate mentoring, and the university’s mission. Science 293: 1624–1626.

A journal article with 2 authors

Topisirovic I, Sonenberg N. 2010. Cell biology. Burn out or fade away? Science 327: 1210–1211.

A journal article with 3 authors

Erez E, Fass D, Bibi E. 2009. How intramembrane proteases bury hydrolytic reactions in the membrane. Nature 459: 371–378.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

García-Hernández DA, García-Lario P, Plez B, D’Antona F, Manchado A, Trigo-Rodríguez JM. 2006. Rubidium-rich asymptotic giant branch stars. Science 314: 1751–1754.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DiBattista M. 2010. Novel Characters. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Czarnowski I, Caballero AM, Howlett RJ, Jain LC, eds. 2016. Intelligent Decision Technologies 2016: Proceedings of the 8th KES International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES-IDT 2016) – Part II. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Dunbar P, Eblé M, Mungov G, McCullough H, Harris E. 2014. NOAA’s Historical Tsunami Event Database, Raw and Processed Water Level Data, and Model Output Relevant to the 11 March 2011 Tohoku, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. In Tsunami Events and Lessons Learned: Environmental and Societal Significance (eds. Y.A. Kontar, V. Santiago-Fandiño, and T. Takahashi), Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, pp. 113–127, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

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 Research.

Blog post

Davis J. 2016. Men Conceived Using IVF Have Increased Risk Of Fertility Problems. IFLScience.

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. 2006. Child Care and Early Childhood Education: More Information Sharing and Program Review by HHS Could Enhance Access for Families with Limited English Proficiency (Chinese Version). 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

Abuzainab N. 2013. Energy and security aspects of wireless networks: Performance and tradeoffs. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Protess B. 2016. This Lender Isn’t Fazed by U.S. Rule. New York Times, September 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gonzalez 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Gonzalez 2001; Topisirovic and Sonenberg 2010).

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

Two authors: (Topisirovic and Sonenberg 2010)
Three or more authors: (García-Hernández et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Genome Research
Abbreviation	Genome Res.
ISSN (print)	1088-9051
ISSN (online)	1549-5469
Scope	Genetics Genetics(clinical)