How to format your references using the Genomics citation style

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

[1]

K.E. Tanner, Materials science. Small but extremely tough, Science. 336 (2012) 1237–1238.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K.L. Frieda, S.M. Block, Direct observation of cotranscriptional folding in an adenine riboswitch, Science. 338 (2012) 397–400.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.H. Baughman, A.A. Zakhidov, W.A. de Heer, Carbon nanotubes--the route toward applications, Science. 297 (2002) 787–792.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Li, J. Ding, H. Gu, Y. Zhang, S. Pan, N. Xu, H. Chen, H. Li, Facilitated diffusion of acetonitrile revealed by quantitative breath analysis using extractive electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1205.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ö. Ergül, L. Gürel, The Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm (MLFMA) for Solving Large-Scale Computational Electromagnetics Problems, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

D. Armbruster, K.G. Kempf, eds., Decision Policies for Production Networks, Springer, London, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.M. Masud, I. Kiringa, Collaborative Data Synchronization in an Instance-Mapped P2P Data Sharing System, in: R. Meersman, Z. Tari, P. Herrero (Eds.), On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: OTM 2007 Workshops: OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters, AWeSOMe, CAMS, OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium, MONET, OnToContent, ORM, PerSys, PPN, RDDS, SSWS, and SWWS 2007, Vilamoura, Portugal, November 25-30, 2007, Proceedings, Part I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007: pp. 7–8.

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 Genomics.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Remote-Controlled Contraceptive Implant That Lasts 16 Years, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/remote-controlled-contraceptive-implant-lasts-16-years/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Mass Transit: Reauthorization Offers Opportunity To Address the Appropriate Federal Role, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.M. Chappel, A Longitudinal Investigation of Stress, Complete Mental Health, and Social Support among High School Students, 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

[1]

M.J. de la MERCED, Megamerger In Aerospace Draws Doubts, New York Times. (2017) B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Genomics
Abbreviation	Genomics
ISSN (print)	0888-7543
Scope	Genetics