How to format your references using the Genomics Data citation style

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

[1]

A. Brandeker, Astronomy. A different class of planets, Science 343 (2014) 1440–1441.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. van der Marel, G.A. Sawatzky, Physics. An optical twist for triplet superconductors, Science 345 (2014) 138–139.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W. Reik, W. Dean, J. Walter, Epigenetic reprogramming in mammalian development, Science 293 (2001) 1089–1093.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Plesch, O. Dahlsten, J. Goold, V. Vedral, Maxwell’s Daemon: information versus particle statistics, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6995.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N. Balakrishnan, M.V. Koutras, Runs and Scans with Applications: Balakrishnan/Runs, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2001.

An edited book

[1]

S.B. Kamerman, S. Phipps, A. Ben-Arieh, eds., From Child Welfare to Child Well-Being: An International Perspective on Knowledge in the Service of Policy Making, 1st ed., Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Bujok, J. Tvrdík, Parallel Migration Model Employing Various Adaptive Variants of Differential Evolution, in: L. Rutkowski, M. Korytkowski, R. Scherer, R. Tadeusiewicz, L.A. Zadeh, J.M. Zurada (Eds.), Swarm and Evolutionary Computation: International Symposia, SIDE 2012 and EC 2012, Held in Conjunction with ICAISC 2012, Zakopane, Poland, April 29-May 3, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 39–47.

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 Data.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Why Women Are More Likely To Get Asthma Than Men, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-women-are-more-likely-to-get-asthma-than-men/ (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, District of Columbia Public Schools: Student Enrollment Count Remains Vulnerable to Errors, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.L. Byrd, Investigating an Afterschool Program for Black Teenage Males Designed to Increase Self-Efficacy, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 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]

S. Kishkovsky, Russia Inaugurates Book Prize. It’s Big, New York Times (2006) E1.

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 Data
Abbreviation	Genom. Data
ISSN (print)	2213-5960
Scope	Biochemistry Biotechnology Genetics Molecular Medicine