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]

D. Zamble, ENZYMOLOGY. It costs more than a nickel, Science 349 (2015) 35–36.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K.K. Treseder, S.R. Holden, Ecology. Fungal carbon sequestration, Science 339 (2013) 1528–1529.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C.C. Ruff, G. Ugazio, E. Fehr, Changing social norm compliance with noninvasive brain stimulation, Science 342 (2013) 482–484.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Q. Zhang, G. Li, D. Rhodes, A. Kiswandhi, T. Besara, B. Zeng, J. Sun, T. Siegrist, M.D. Johannes, L. Balicas, Superconductivity with extremely large upper critical fields in Nb2Pd0.81S5, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1446.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. Nguyen, X. Guo, Y. Pan, Multiple Biological Sequence Alignment: Scoring Functions, Algorithms and Applications, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

C. Tamás, Settlement Morphology of Budapest, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.J. Ostwald, J. Vaughan, Measuring Architecture, in: J. Vaughan (Ed.), The Fractal Dimension of Architecture, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 67–85.

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]

S. Luntz, Cheap Blood Pressure Drug Cures Diabetes In Mice, Human Trials Announced, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/trial-announced-diabetes-drug-following-success-mice/ (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, Opportunities for Improving Program Planning for Photovoltaic Research and Development, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Fahmy, Intoxicated by music: A content analysis of the prevalence of alcohol, illicit substances, and tobacco in popular music from 2000 to 2011, 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

[1]

R. George, The Taboo of Menstruation, New York Times (2012) A19.

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