How to format your references using the Pharmacogenomics citation style

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

Eddy SR. Genetics. Total information awareness for worm genetics. Science 311(5766), 1381–1382 (2006).

A journal article with 2 authors

Schramke V, Allshire R. Hairpin RNAs and retrotransposon LTRs effect RNAi and chromatin-based gene silencing. Science 301(5636), 1069–1074 (2003).

A journal article with 3 authors

Vivier E, Nunès JA, Vély F. Natural killer cell signaling pathways. Science 306(5701), 1517–1519 (2004).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tsutsui K-I, Sakata H, Naganuma T, Taira M. Neural correlates for perception of 3D surface orientation from texture gradient. Science 298(5592), 409–412 (2002).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zanotto ED. Crystals in Glass. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2013).

An edited book

Železný F, Lavrač N (Eds.). Inductive Logic Programming: 18th International Conference, ILP 2008 Prague, Czech Republic, September 10-12, 2008 Proceedings. (Volume 5194). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2008).

A chapter in an edited book

Cournier A, Dubois S, Lamani A, Petit F, Villain V. Snap-Stabilizing Message Forwarding Algorithm on Tree Topologies. In: Distributed Computing and Networking: 13th International Conference, ICDCN 2012, Hong Kong, China, January 3-6, 2012. Proceedings. Bononi L, Datta AK, Devismes S, Misra A (Ed.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 46–60 (2012).

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 Pharmacogenomics.

Blog post

Evans K. ‘Sorry Zookeepers, Chimps Don’t Care If You Play Them Music’ (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sorry-zookeepers-chimps-dont-care-if-you-play-them-music/.

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. FTA New York Mass Transit Grants: False Statements to FTA Grantee/Grantee Violations of Contracting Policy, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (1992).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Van Vlack KA. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, (2012).

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

Fausset R, Robles F, Eligon J. Online Footprint Builds Portrait of Gunman’s Life, (2016).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Pharmacogenomics
Abbreviation	Pharmacogenomics
ISSN (print)	1462-2416
ISSN (online)	1744-8042
Scope	Genetics Molecular Medicine Pharmacology