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

Oreskes N. 2004. Beyond the ivory tower. The scientific consensus on climate change. Science. 306:1686.

A journal article with 2 authors

Domb LG, Pagel M. 2001. Sexual swellings advertise female quality in wild baboons. Nature. 410:204–206.

A journal article with 3 authors

Winston WM, Molodowitch C, Hunter CP. 2002. Systemic RNAi in C. elegans requires the putative transmembrane protein SID-1. Science. 295:2456–2459.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Burg TP et al. 2007. Weighing of biomolecules, single cells and single nanoparticles in fluid. Nature. 446:1066–1069.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Declerck P. 2012. Discrete Event Systems in Dioid Algebra and Conventional Algebra. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Schwartz AJ, Kumar M, Adams BL, Field DP, eds. 2009. Electron Backscatter Diffraction in Materials Science. Springer US: Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Bauer B. 2012. Catawba Indians’ Adaptive Response to Colonialism. In: The Ethics of Anthropology and Amerindian Research: Reporting on Environmental Degradation and Warfare. Chacon, RJ & Mendoza, RG, editors. Springer: New York, NY pp. 73–77.

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

Fang J. 2014. NASA Just Emailed A Wrench To The International Space Station. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-nasa-emailed-wrench-space/ (Accessed October 30, 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. 1993. NASA Procurement: Planning for Pilot Test of New Procurement Procedures Is Adequate. 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

Soheili A. 2008. A transannular Cope approach toward the core structure of isocyclocitrinol. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University: New York, NY.

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

Kelly C. 2014. ‘A Coarse Pleasure’ In Stories of Impostors. New York Times, January 12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Oreskes 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Oreskes 2004; Domb & Pagel 2001).

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

Two authors: (Domb & Pagel 2001)
Three or more authors: (Burg et al. 2007)

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