How to format your references using the Genome Announcements citation style

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

Taylor I. 2009. Recession Watch: Learn to convince politicians. Nature 457:958–959.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kolar CS, Lodge DM. 2002. Ecological predictions and risk assessment for alien fishes in North America. Science 298:1233–1236.

A journal article with 3 authors

Van Tonder GJ, Lyons MJ, Ejima Y. 2002. Visual structure of a Japanese Zen garden. Nature 419:359–360.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kakazu E, Kondo Y, Kogure T, Ninomiya M, Kimura O, Ueno Y, Shimosegawa T. 2013. Plasma amino acids imbalance in cirrhotic patients disturbs the tricarboxylic acid cycle of dendritic cell. Sci Rep 3:3459.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Salam A. 2009. Molecular Quantum Electrodynamics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Velázquez A. 2016. Standardized Hierarchical Vegetation Classification: Mexican and Global Patterns. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Högselius P, Kaijser A, van der Vleuten E. 2015. Networked Food Economy, p. 107–140. In Kaijser, A, Vleuten, E van der (eds.), Europe’s Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War, Nature. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

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 Genome Announcements.

Blog post

Andrews R. 2015. Baby Duck-Billed Dinosaurs Found In Dragon’s Tomb Site. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/baby-duck-billed-dinosaurs-found-dragons-tomb-site/. Retrieved 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. 1972. Examination of Selected Aspects of the Financial Management System of Goddard Space Flight Center. 093277. 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

Plumer DR. 2010. The relationship between earned value management metrics and customer satisfaction. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Herrman J. 2016. Fixation on Fake News Obscures a Waning Trust in Real Reporting. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

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	Genome Announcements
Abbreviation	Genome Announc.
ISSN (online)	2169-8287
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