How to format your references using the Genomics citation style

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

[1]

L.K. Harra, Astronomy. Looking closer at the Sun, Science 346 (2014) 305–306.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Silvente-Poirot, M. Poirot, Cancer. Cholesterol and cancer, in the balance, Science 343 (2014) 1445–1446.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Smith, C. Theodoris, E.H. Davidson, A gene regulatory network subcircuit drives a dynamic pattern of gene expression, Science 318 (2007) 794–797.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.B. Campbell, B.A. Campbell, L.M. Carter, J.-L. Margot, N.J.S. Stacy, No evidence for thick deposits of ice at the lunar south pole, Nature 443 (2006) 835–837.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C.A. Windom Sr., H. Gaidhani, A. Fontana, Virtualizing, Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

P. Honenberger, ed., Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology: Nature, Life, and the Human between Transcendental and Empirical Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. Danieli, Assessing Trauma Across Cultures from a Multigenerational Perspective, in: J.P. Wilson, C.S.-K. Tang (Eds.), Cross-Cultural Assessment of Psychological Trauma and PTSD, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2007: pp. 65–89.

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 Genomics.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Scientists Are Recreating Some Of The Most Extreme Events That Have Ever Occurred In The Universe, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/physics/pushing-limits-experimental-astrophysics/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Nanomanufacturing: Emergence and Implications for U.S. Competitiveness, the Environment, and Human Health, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.D. Gardner, A time course analysis of stem cell activity following brain injury in food-storing black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus), Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

L. Greenhouse, The Court Changes the Game, New York Times (2009) A21.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Genomics
Abbreviation	Genomics
ISSN (print)	0888-7543
Scope	Genetics