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. Burgess D. Taking on that first faculty job. Nature. 2007;447:1142.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jaramillo F, Destouni G. SUSTAINABILITY. Comment on “Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet.” Science. 2015;348:1217.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Grünwald D, Singer RH, Rout M. Nuclear export dynamics of RNA-protein complexes. Nature. 2011;475:333–41.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Liu B, Lin B, Tan X, Liang J, Wu S, Liu J, et al. A reduction in reactive oxygen species contributes to dihydromyricetin-induced apoptosis in human hepatocellular carcinoma cells. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7041.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ratzliff A, Unutzer J, Katon W, Stephens KA. Integrated Care. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Becher T. Introduction to Soft-Collinear Effective Theory. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Levine N. A Motor Vehicle Safety Planning Support System: The Houston Experience. In: Geertman S, Stillwell J, editors. Planning Support Systems Best Practice and New Methods. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. p. 93–111.

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. Andrews R. Scientists Discover How “Lucy” Died, Solving 3.2-Million-Year-Old Detective Puzzle. IFLScience. 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-discover-how-lucy-died-solving-32millionyearold-detective-puzzle/. 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. Federal Vehicle Fleets: GSA Has Opportunities to Further Encourage Cost Savings for Leased Vehicles. 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. Chon JY. Coping as a mediator of the relation between teacher perceived stress and teacher-student relationships. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina; 2012.

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. MONICA KELLY; Monica Kelly lives in Larchmont. Three Crows Cause a Neighbor to Take Flights of Fancy. New York Times. 1988;:12WC32.

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

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