How to format your references using the Genome Biology and Evolution citation style

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

Turner JA. 2013. Chemistry. A nickel finish protects silicon photoanodes for water splitting. Science. 342:811–812.

A journal article with 2 authors

Phipps RJ, Gaunt MJ. 2009. A meta-selective copper-catalyzed C-H bond arylation. Science. 323:1593–1597.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nishida K, Montagner J-P, Kawakatsu H. 2009. Global surface wave tomography using seismic hum. Science. 326:112.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

van Montfort RLM, Congreve M, Tisi D, Carr R, Jhoti H. 2003. Oxidation state of the active-site cysteine in protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B. Nature. 423:773–777.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Daïan J-F. 2014. Equilibrium and Transfer in Porous Media 1. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Manolis GD, Polyzos D, eds. 2009. Recent Advances in Boundary Element Methods: A Volume to Honor Professor Dimitri Beskos. 1st ed. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Sano Y, Kanda T. 2016. Blood–Brain Barrier and Blood–Nerve Barrier. In: Neuroimmunological Diseases. Kusunoki, S, editor. Springer Japan: Tokyo pp. 55–69.

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 Biology and Evolution.

Blog post

Hale T. 2016. Bigger Wine Glasses Makes People Drink Significantly More. IFLScience.

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. 1969. Internal Controls Over the Automatic Data Processing System Used by the Travelers Insurance Company in Making Medicare Payments. 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

Newsome GA. 2009. Novel instrumentation and method development for a quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometer. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina: Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Kishkovsky S, Herszenhorn DM. 2012. Punk Band’s Moscow Trial Offers Platform for Orthodox Protesters. New York Times, August 9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Turner 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Turner 2013; Phipps & Gaunt 2009).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Phipps & Gaunt 2009)
Three or more authors: (van Montfort et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Genome Biology and Evolution
Abbreviation	Genome Biol. Evol.
ISSN (online)	1759-6653
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Genetics