How to format your references using the Forensic Genomics citation style

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

Soderquist C. NUCLEAR FUELS. How to isolate americium. Science 2015;350(6261):635–636.

A journal article with 2 authors

Leonhardt U, Tyc T. Broadband invisibility by non-Euclidean cloaking. Science 2009;323(5910):110–112.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bezryadin A, Lau CN, Tinkham M. Quantum suppression of superconductivity in ultrathin nanowires. Nature 2000;404(6781):971–974.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hoffmann AA, Montgomery BL, Popovici J, et al. Successful establishment of Wolbachia in Aedes populations to suppress dengue transmission. Nature 2011;476(7361):454–457.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pickles J, Smith A, Begg R, et al. Articulations of Capital. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2015.

An edited book

Deville MO. Mathematical Modeling for Complex Fluids and Flows. (Gatski TB. ed). Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Lousame FP, Sánchez E. A Taxonomy of Collaborative-Based Recommender Systems. In: Web Personalization in Intelligent Environments. (Castellano G, Jain LC, Fanelli AM. eds). Studies in Computational Intelligence Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2009; pp. 81–117.

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 Forensic Genomics.

Blog post

Fang J. Pandas Don’t Have A Crazy Low Metabolism. IFLScience; 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/pandas-dont-have-a-crazy-low-metabolism/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office. DOD’s High-Risk Areas: Challenges Remain to Achieving and Demonstrating Progress in Supply Chain Management. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Peters B. From Cybernetics to Cyber Networks: Norbert Wiener, the Soviet Internet, and the Cold War Dawn of Information Universalism. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University: New York, NY; 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

Branch J. Fans, Please Rise (No, Not for Beer). New York Times 2017;D1.

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	Forensic Genomics
ISSN (print)	2690-8956
ISSN (online)	2690-8964
Scope