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

Emery B. Regulation of oligodendrocyte differentiation and myelination. Science. 2010;330(6005):779-782.

A journal article with 2 authors

Glass K, Girvan M. Annotation enrichment analysis: an alternative method for evaluating the functional properties of gene sets. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4191.

A journal article with 3 authors

Patek SN, Korff WL, Caldwell RL. Biomechanics: deadly strike mechanism of a mantis shrimp. Nature. 2004;428(6985):819-820.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Thüring T, Abis M, Wang Z, David C, Stampanoni M. X-ray phase-contrast imaging at 100 keV on a conventional source. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5198.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gasser W, Heiner E, Elk K. Greensche Funktionen in Festkörper- Und Vielteilchenphysik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

D’Atri A, Ferrara M, George JF, Spagnoletti P, eds. Information Technology and Innovation Trends in Organizations: ItAIS: The Italian Association for Information Systems. Physica-Verlag HD; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Chessa M, Sabatini SP, Solari F, Tatti F. A Quantitative Comparison of Speed and Reliability for Log-Polar Mapping Techniques. In: Crowley JL, Draper BA, Thonnat M, eds. Computer Vision Systems: 8th International Conference, ICVS 2011, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 20-22, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2011:41-50.

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

Taub B. Here’s How The World’s Surface Water Has Shifted In The Last 30 Years. IFLScience.

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. Highlights of a Forum: Health Care 20 Years From Now--Taking Steps Today to Meet Tomorrow’s Challenges. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Crowley CE. Aging of Florida Blue Crabs, Callinectes Sapidus, Through the Biochemical Extraction of Lipofuscin. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida; 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

Sisario B. Lady Gaga Will Replace Beyoncé at Coachella. New York Times. March 1, 2017:C3.

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