How to format your references using the Integrative Omics and Molecular Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Integrative Omics and Molecular Biology. 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. Brown D. Mutant flu - the view from the newsroom. Nature. 2012;485:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Zuber MT, Garrick-Bethell I. Planetary science. What do we need to know to land on the Moon again? Science. 2005;310:983–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Garner HR, McIver LJ, Waitzkin MB. Research funding: Same work, twice the money? Nature. 2013;493:599–601.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Basu U, Chaudhuri J, Alpert C, Dutt S, Ranganath S, Li G, et al. The AID antibody diversification enzyme is regulated by protein kinase A phosphorylation. Nature. 2005;438:508–11.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Windom CA Sr, Gaidhani H, Fontana A. Virtualizing. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Cristóbal López AB, Martí Vega A, Luque López A, editors. Next Generation of Photovoltaics: New Concepts. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Broekens J, Harbers M, Hindriks K, van den Bosch K, Jonker C, Meyer J-J. Do You Get It? User-Evaluated Explainable BDI Agents. In: Dix J, Witteveen C, editors. Multiagent System Technologies: 8th German Conference, MATES 2010, Leipzig, Germany, September 27-29, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 28–39.

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 Integrative Omics and Molecular Biology.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Orangutans Need More Than Your Well-Meaning Clicktivism. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/orangutans-need-more-your-well-meaning-clicktivism/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. Technology Development: Future Use of NASA’s Large Format Camera Is Uncertain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Karch K. An investigation of perceptions about smart mobile phone usage as an instructional tool in a high school classroom. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University; 2014.

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. Williams J. Stranger Than Reality? New York Times. 2017;:BR4.

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	Integrative Omics and Molecular Biology
ISSN (print)	2047-9174
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