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

Colliex, C. 2015. Chemistry. Tracking the merry dance of nanoparticles. Science 349(6245): 232–233.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hambourger, M., and Moore, T.A. 2009. Chemistry. Nailing down nickel for electrocatalysis. Science 326(5958): 1355–1356.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, Z., Gandhi, C.S., and Rees, D.C. 2009. Structure of a tetrameric MscL in an expanded intermediate state. Nature 461(7260): 120–124.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Martinez, P., McGranahan, N., Birkbak, N.J., Gerlinger, M., and Swanton, C. 2013. Computational optimisation of targeted DNA sequencing for cancer detection. Sci. Rep. 3: 3309.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boyd, R.K., Basic, C., and Bethem, R.A. 2008. Trace Quantitative Analysis by Mass Spectrometry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Hayat, M.A. (Editor). 2012. Pediatric Cancer, Volume 3: Diagnosis, Therapy, and Prognosis. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Kennedy, I.R., Kecskés, M., Deaker, R., Roughley, R.J., Marsh, S., Rose, M., Choudhury, A., Hien, N.T., Cong, P.T., Van Toan, P., and Be, T.T. 2008. Plant Growth-Promoting Diazotrophs: Optimising their Role as Key Agents in Achieving More Efficient Nutrient Use by Field Crops. In Biological Nitrogen Fixation: Towards Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Agriculture: Proceedings of the 15th International Nitrogen Fixation Congress and the 12th International Conference of the African Association for Biological Nitrogen Fixation. Edited by F.D. Dakora, S.B.M. Chimphango, A.J. Valentine, C. Elmerich, and W.E. Newton. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht. pp. 19–22.

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

Andrew, E. 2015, September 9. Got A Great Relationship? You May Want To Thank Your Prehistoric Grandmother. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/got-great-relationship-you-may-want-thank-your-prehistoric-grandmother/ [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. 1995. Missile Development: Status and Issues at the Time of the TSSAM Termination Decision. 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

Paustian, M.E. 2010. Evaluating competition between the non-native slug Arion subfuscus and the native slug Philomycus carolinianus. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Shpigel, B. 2016, December 21. Steelers Are Getting Their 2 Points’ Worth. New York Times: B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Colliex 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hambourger and Moore 2009; Colliex 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hambourger and Moore 2009)
Three or more authors: (Martinez et al. 2013)

About the journal

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