How to format your references using the Biomarkers and Genomic Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biomarkers and Genomic Medicine. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Allara DL. A perspective on surfaces and interfaces. Nature. 2005;437(7059):638-639.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tosatti E, Prestipino S. MATERIALS SCIENCE: Weird Gold Nanowires. Science. 2000;289(5479):561-563.

A journal article with 3 authors

McHenry CR, Cook AG, Wroe S. Bottom-feeding plesiosaurs. Science. 2005;310(5745):75.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lee MG, Wynder C, Cooch N, Shiekhattar R. An essential role for CoREST in nucleosomal histone 3 lysine 4 demethylation. Nature. 2005;437(7057):432-435.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Niemi V, Nyberg K. Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Security. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Agrawal S, ed. Obesity, Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery: A Practical Guide. 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Beste DJV, McFadden J. Metabolism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In: McFadden J, Beste DJV, Kierzek AM, eds. Systems Biology of Tuberculosis. Springer; 2013:55-78.

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 Biomarkers and Genomic Medicine.

Blog post

Luntz S. Evidence Found Of Giant Asteroid Impact in Australia 3 Billion Years ago. IFLScience. Published May 18, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/evidence-found-giant-asteroid-impact/

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. Status Report: “National Materials and Minerals Policy, Research and Development Act of 1980.” U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Spillman SA. Is More Always Better: Comparing the Effects of Single and Multiple Learning Channels on Academic Performance. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida; 2014.

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

Kelly K. New Concern That Politeness Is a Lost Art in the Office. New York Times. January 18, 2004:101.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Biomarkers and Genomic Medicine
ISSN (print)	2214-0247
Scope	General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Biomedical Engineering General Medicine Drug Discovery