How to format your references using the Genome Integrity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Genome Integrity. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Morgan B. Research impact: income for outcome. Nature. 2014;511:S72-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Carrete M, Tella JL. High individual consistency in fear of humans throughout the adult lifespan of rural and urban burrowing owls. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3524.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Shay JW, Reddel RR, Wright WE. Cancer. Cancer and telomeres--an ALTernative to telomerase. Science. 2012;336:1388–90.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Linden S, Enkrich C, Wegener M, Zhou J, Koschny T, Soukoulis CM. Magnetic response of metamaterials at 100 terahertz. Science. 2004;306:1351–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Stoute K. Help, I’m Rich! Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Dasari A. Polymer Nanocomposites: Towards Multi-Functionality. London: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Charão RC, Bisognin E, Bisognin V, Pazoto AF. Asymptotic Behavior of a Bernoulli-Euler Type Equation with Nonlinear Localized Damping. In: Cazenave T, Costa D, Lopes O, Manásevich R, Rabinowitz P, Ruf B, et al., editors. Contributions to Nonlinear Analysis: A Tribute to D.G. de Figueiredo on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2006. p. 67–91.

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 Integrity.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Scientists Can Learn From Pseudoscience … That’s A Fact. IFLScience. 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-can-learn-pseudoscience-s-fact-da/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Telecommunications: FCC Should Improve the Accountability and Transparency of High-Cost Program Funding. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Britt AL. The Long-Term Impact of Preschool Education on Student Achievement. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University; 2014.

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

1. Nir SM. Police Seek Photos of Central Park Related to 2016 Blast That Destroyed a Tourist’s Leg. New York Times. 2017;:A17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Integrity
ISSN (print)	2041-9414
Scope