How to format your references using the Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Structural and Functional 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Bandfield JL (2007) High-resolution subsurface water-ice distributions on Mars. Nature 447:64–67

A journal article with 2 authors

Gabaldón T, Huynen MA (2003) Reconstruction of the proto-mitochondrial metabolism. Science 301:609

A journal article with 3 authors

Lissauer JJ, Dawson RI, Tremaine S (2014) Advances in exoplanet science from Kepler. Nature 513:336–344

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Thompson JR, Pacocha S, Pharino C, et al (2005) Genotypic diversity within a natural coastal bacterioplankton population. Science 307:1311–1313

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bock R (2005) Handbuch der analytisch-chemischen Aufschlussmethoden. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Deng M, Jiang R, Sun F, Zhang X (2013) Research in Computational Molecular Biology: 17th Annual International Conference, RECOMB 2013, Beijing, China, April 7-10, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Bernabei R, Power J (2016) Living Designs. In: Lepora NF, Mura A, Mangan M, et al (eds) Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: 5th International Conference, Living Machines 2016, Edinburgh, UK, July 19-22, 2016. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 40–47

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 Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Beaked Whale Smashes Record with Nearly 2-Mile Dive. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1972) Achievements, Cost, and Administration of the Ocean Sediment Coring Program. 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

Schwartz DA (2017) Safe Travels? An Examination of the Search and Rescue Policies and Capabilities in the Northwest Passage Region. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Hubbard B (2017) Two Blasts Kill Dozens Near Shrines in Damascus. New York Times A8

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	Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
Abbreviation	J. Struct. Funct. Genomics
ISSN (print)	1345-711X
ISSN (online)	1570-0267
Scope	Biochemistry Genetics Structural Biology General Medicine