How to format your references using the Genome citation style

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

Stewart, A.K. 2014. Medicine. How thalidomide works against cancer. Science 343(6168): 256–257.

A journal article with 2 authors

Webster, C.R., and Heymsfield, A.J. 2003. Water isotope ratios D/H, 18O/16O, 17O/16O in and out of clouds map dehydration pathways. Science 302(5651): 1742–1745.

A journal article with 3 authors

Denning, D.P., Hatch, V., and Horvitz, H.R. 2012. Programmed elimination of cells by caspase-independent cell extrusion in C. elegans. Nature 488(7410): 226–230.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bates, M., Huang, B., Dempsey, G.T., and Zhuang, X. 2007. Multicolor super-resolution imaging with photo-switchable fluorescent probes. Science 317(5845): 1749–1753.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Karr, R. 2009. Lead, Sell, or Get Out of the Way. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Cheah, C.C. 2015. Task-Space Sensory Feedback Control of Robot Manipulators. Edited ByX. Li. Springer, Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

Lambert, M., and Naber, D. 2012. Quick Reference. In Current Schizophrenia. Edited by M. Lambert. Springer Healthcare UK, Heidelberg. pp. 157–175.

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.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2014, September 19. Excitation and Inhibition Co-Exist in Disappointment. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/brain/excitation-and-inhibition-co-exist-disappointment/ [accessed 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. 1987. Compensatory Education: Chapter 1 Services Provided to Private Sectarian School Students. 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

Bogenreif, C. 2017. Rachmaninoff’s Sonata For Cello and Piano: A Staple in the Cello and Piano Repertoire. 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

Ortved, J. 2016, August 4. Trading a T Square for Showbiz. New York Times: D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stewart 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Webster and Heymsfield 2003; Stewart 2014).

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

Two authors: (Webster and Heymsfield 2003)
Three or more authors: (Bates et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Genome
Abbreviation	Genome
ISSN (print)	0831-2796
ISSN (online)	1480-3321
Scope	Biotechnology Genetics Molecular Biology General Medicine