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

Overpeck JT. 2000. Climate change. The hole record. Nature 403:714–715.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gao GF, Feng Y. 2014. On the ground in Sierra Leone. Science 346:666.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen M, McCauley JW, Hemker KJ. 2003. Shock-induced localized amorphization in boron carbide. Science 299:1563–1566.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pinyopich A, Ditta GS, Savidge B, Liljegren SJ, Baumann E, Wisman E, Yanofsky MF. 2003. Assessing the redundancy of MADS-box genes during carpel and ovule development. Nature 424:85–88.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Courant R, McShane EJ. 1988. Differential and Integral Calculus. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Davis E. 2015. Data Assessment for Electrical Surge Protective Devices. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Edelman PH. 2006. Minimum Total Deviation Apportionments, p. 55–64. In Simeone, B, Pukelsheim, F (eds.), Mathematics and Democracy: Recent Advances in Voting Systems and Collective Choice. 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

Andrew E. 2015. The Robots Are Coming For Your Job! Why Digital Literacy Is So Important For The Jobs Of The Future. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robots-are-coming-your-job-why-digital-literacy-so-important-jobs-future/. 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. 2003. DOD Business Systems Modernization: Continued Investment in Key Accounting Systems Needs to be Justified. GAO-03-465. 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

Domina NV. 2009. Gender and culture influences on leadership perceptions. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Apuzzo M, Fink S, Risen J. 2016. U.S. Torture Leaves a Legacy of Detainees With Damaged Minds. 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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