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

Petherick A. Campaigning for Chagas disease. Nature. 2010;465(7301):S21-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roska B, Werblin F. Vertical interactions across ten parallel, stacked representations in the mammalian retina. Nature. 2001;410(6828):583-587.

A journal article with 3 authors

González E, Arbiol J, Puntes VF. Carving at the nanoscale: sequential galvanic exchange and Kirkendall growth at room temperature. Science. 2011;334(6061):1377-1380.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Budanov AV, Sablina AA, Feinstein E, Koonin EV, Chumakov PM. Regeneration of peroxiredoxins by p53-regulated sestrins, homologs of bacterial AhpD. Science. 2004;304(5670):596-600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Speight JG. Environmental Analysis and Technology for the Refining Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Martella C. Practical Graph Analytics with Apache Giraph. (Shaposhnik R, Logothetis D, eds.). Apress; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

McCarthy JM, Soh GS. Algebraic Synthesis of Planar Chains. In: Soh GS, ed. Geometric Design of Linkages. Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics. Springer; 2011:93-123.

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

Hamilton K. The Evidence Of Early Human Life In Australia’s Arid Interior. IFLScience. Published November 7, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-evidence-of-early-human-life-in-australias-arid-interior/

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. Strategic Bombers: Adding Conventional Capabilities Will Be Complex, Time-Consuming, and Costly. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mc Adams AN. School Psychologists’ Perceptions of Procedural Fidelity in Special Education. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Wagner J. Bruce Finds His Swing by Studying the Stats. New York Times. March 21, 2017:B7.

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

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