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]

P. Smaglik, Calling for entrepreneurs London, Nature 419 (2002) 4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Zhu, J. Tromp, Mapping tectonic deformation in the crust and upper mantle beneath Europe and the North Atlantic Ocean, Science 341 (2013) 871–875.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L.V. Butov, A.C. Gossard, D.S. Chemla, Macroscopically ordered state in an exciton system, Nature 418 (2002) 751–754.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.B. Campbell, B.A. Campbell, L.M. Carter, J.-L. Margot, N.J.S. Stacy, No evidence for thick deposits of ice at the lunar south pole, Nature 443 (2006) 835–837.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G.W. Esch, Ecological Parasitology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

L. Wang, K. Chen, Y.S. Ong, eds., Advances in Natural Computation: First International Conference, ICNC 2005, Changsha, China, August 27-29, 2005, Proceedings, Part II, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. Magarelli, C. Carducci, C. Dell’Atti, Imaging of the Shoulder, in: G. Milano, A. Grasso (Eds.), Shoulder Arthroscopy: Principles and Practice, Springer, London, 2014: pp. 45–57.

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]

E. Andrew, Almost 150 Of Our Genes May Have Come From Microbes, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/almost-150-our-genes-may-have-come-microbes/ (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, Space Acquisitions: DOD Needs to Take More Action to Address Unrealistic Initial Cost Estimates of Space Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E. Gwaduri, A personal narrative: Struggles and experiences of acculturation as a Pakistani Shia Muslim while battling immigration, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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]

S. Hodara, Taking in the History of a City Shaped by the Sea, New York Times (2014) CT10.

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