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

Guikema SD. 2009. Engineering. Infrastructure design issues in disaster-prone regions. Science 323:1302–1303.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gan J, Appenzeller T. 2014. 2013 Visualization Challenge. Introduction. Science 343:599.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aviezer H, Trope Y, Todorov A. 2012. Body cues, not facial expressions, discriminate between intense positive and negative emotions. Science 338:1225–1229.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yu Z, Yang J, Amalfitano S, Yu X, Liu L. 2014. Effects of water stratification and mixing on microbial community structure in a subtropical deep reservoir. Sci Rep 4:5821.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Peterson RL. 2016. Trading on Sentiment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

2010. Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems: Second International ICST Conference, MOBILIGHT 2010, Barcelona, Spain, May 10-12, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kussul E, Baidyk T, Wunsch DC. 2010. Associative-Projective Neural Networks (APNNs), p. 75–104. In Baidyk, T, Wunsch, DC (eds.), Neural Networks and Micromechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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

Fang J. 2014. 98 Never-Before-Seen Beetle Species Discovered in Indonesia. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. 2005. Federal Aviation Administration: Stronger Architecture Program Needed to Guide Systems Modernization Efforts. GAO-05-266. 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

Tu KN. 2013. Novel bivalent organophosphates as inhibitors of butyrylcholinesterase — Compounds with potential for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and studies in the development of asymmetric catalytic Kabachnik-Fields reaction. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kolomatsky M. 2017. International Rents Per Square Foot. 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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