How to format your references using the Galaxies citation style

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

Grubb, M. Emissions Trading: Cap and Trade Finds New Energy. Nature 2012, 491, 666–667.

A journal article with 2 authors

Huang, Z.; Li, X. Origin of Flaw-Tolerance in Nacre. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1693.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cho, G.; Wu, Y.; Ackerman, J.L. Detection of Hydroxyl Ions in Bone Mineral by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy. Science 2003, 300, 1123–1127.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Andrews, O.E.; Cha, D.J.; Wei, C.; Patton, J.G. RNAi-Mediated Gene Silencing in Zebrafish Triggered by Convergent Transcription. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5222.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kovalenko, N.P.; Krasny, Y.P.; Krey, U. Physics of Amorphous Metals; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG, 2005; ISBN 9783527603176.

An edited book

Foundations of Learning Classifier Systems; Bull, L., Kovacs, T., Eds.; Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005; Vol. 183; ISBN 9783540250739.

A chapter in an edited book

Gupta, A.; Al-Ahmad, A. Case 5. In Cardiac Electrophysiology: Clinical Case Review; Natale, A., Al-Ahmad, A., Wang, P.J., DiMarco, J., Eds.; Springer: London, 2011; pp. 19–21 ISBN 9781849963893.

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 Galaxies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Envision 2050: The Future Of The Oceans (accessed on 30 October 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 Financial Literacy and Education Commission: Further Progress Needed to Ensure an Effective National Strategy; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2007;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nguyen, L.L. Pacific Psychiatric Group: A Business Plan For a Direct Pay Outpatient Psychiatric Practice. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

Lyman, R.; Walsh, M.W. Police Salaries and Pensions Push California City to Brink. New York Times 2013, A1.

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	Galaxies
Abbreviation	Galaxies
ISSN (online)	2075-4434
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