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

Stone AJ. Chemistry. Water from first principles. Science. 2007;315(5816):1228-1229.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peters SE, Foote M. Determinants of extinction in the fossil record. Nature. 2002;416(6879):420-424.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dian BC, Longarte A, Zwier TS. Conformational dynamics in a dipeptide after single-mode vibrational excitation. Science. 2002;296(5577):2369-2373.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nidhin M, Vedhanayagam M, Sangeetha S, et al. Fluorescent nanonetworks: a novel bioalley for collagen scaffolds and tissue engineering. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5968.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vanclef J. The Wealth Code 2.0. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Landrum R. Pro SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. (Voytek WJ, ed.). Apress; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Hamoudi M, Quesnel Y, Dyment J, Lesur V. Aeromagnetic and Marine Measurements. In: Mandea M, Korte M, eds. Geomagnetic Observations and Models. Springer Netherlands; 2011:57-103.

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

Fang J. Scientists Have Sequenced the Coffee Genome! IFLScience. September 4, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-have-sequenced-coffee-genome/

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. B-2 Bomber: Initial Flight Tests. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mustico JP. Perception and Preference Comparison of Managers’ Behaviors on Sales and Non -Sales Employees: A Case Study. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University; 2010.

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

Shear MD. How I Learned Comey Was Out. New York Times. May 11, 2017:A2.

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