How to format your references using the Genomic Medicine, Biomarkers, and Health Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Genomic Medicine, Biomarkers, and Health Sciences. 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

Money NP. Obituary: Cecil Terence Ingold (1905-2010). Nature. 2010;465(7301):1025.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schiermeier Q, Tollefson J. Climate change: a Nobel cause. Nature. 2007;449(7164):766-767.

A journal article with 3 authors

MacMicking JD, Taylor GA, McKinney JD. Immune control of tuberculosis by IFN-gamma-inducible LRG-47. Science. 2003;302(5645):654-659.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Maeda K, Benetti S, Stritzinger M, et al. An asymmetric explosion as the origin of spectral evolution diversity in type Ia supernovae. Nature. 2010;466(7302):82-85.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Storhas W. Bioverfahrensentwicklung. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

Sugiyama M, Fujii K, Nakamura S, eds. Solar to Chemical Energy Conversion: Theory and Application. Vol 32. 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Xu S, Batten I, Ryan M. Dynamic Measurement and Protected Execution: Model and Analysis. In: Abadi M, Lluch Lafuente A, eds. Trustworthy Global Computing: 8th International Symposium, TGC 2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 30-31, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing; 2014:45-63.

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 Genomic Medicine, Biomarkers, and Health Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew E. Shark-Counting Divers Off Costa Rica Reveal Limits Of Marine Reserves. IFLScience. April 1, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/shark-counting-divers-costa-rica-reveal-limits-marine-reserves/

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. Federal Research: SEMATECH’s Technological Progress and Proposed R&D Program. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Subbarao S. An 8-PSK Super Regenerative Receiver: Design and Simulation. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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

Otis J. A Caretaker and Protector Dreams of the ‘Fullest’ Life Possible for Her Sister. New York Times. December 11, 2016:A17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Genomic Medicine, Biomarkers, and Health Sciences
ISSN (print)	2211-4254
Scope	General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Biomedical Engineering General Medicine Drug Discovery