How to format your references using the Genome Research citation style

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

Robock A. 2011. Nuclear winter is a real and present danger. Nature 473: 275–276.

A journal article with 2 authors

Monroe C, Kim J. 2013. Scaling the ion trap quantum processor. Science 339: 1164–1169.

A journal article with 3 authors

Volkov I, Banavar JR, Maritan A. 2006. Comment on “Computational improvements reveal great bacterial diversity and high metal toxicity in soil.” Science 313: 918; author reply 918.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Clark EA, Golub TR, Lander ES, Hynes RO. 2000. Genomic analysis of metastasis reveals an essential role for RhoC. Nature 406: 532–535.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prazeres DMF. 2011. Plasmid Biopharmaceuticals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Huang D-S, Han K, Gromiha M, eds. 2014. Intelligent Computing in Bioinformatics: 10th International Conference, ICIC 2014, Taiyuan, China, August 3-6, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Nahhas E. 2016. The “Silenced” Narrative of 1948 War Events Among Young Palestinians in Israel. In A Social Psychology Perspective on The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Celebrating the Legacy of Daniel Bar-Tal, Vol II (eds. K. Sharvit and E. Halperin), Peace Psychology Book Series, pp. 61–75, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2013. Several Cancers Caused By The Same Genetic Mutations. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/several-cancers-caused-same-genetic-mutations/ (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. 1999. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Costs and Planned Use of Emergency Funds. 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

Dillard C. 2017. Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) and Implementation Science. 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

Rothenberg B. 2017. An American Teenager Who Lives for Big Moments Produces One. New York Times, May 31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robock 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Robock 2011; Monroe and Kim 2013).

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

Two authors: (Monroe and Kim 2013)
Three or more authors: (Clark et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Genome Research
Abbreviation	Genome Res.
ISSN (print)	1088-9051
ISSN (online)	1549-5469
Scope	Genetics Genetics(clinical)