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. Cane MA. Climate: A moist model monsoon. Nature. 2010;463:163–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Saviane C, Silver RA. Fast vesicle reloading and a large pool sustain high bandwidth transmission at a central synapse. Nature. 2006;439:983–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wilson HR, Blake R, Lee SH. Dynamics of travelling waves in visual perception. Nature. 2001;412:907–10.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Pouchkina-Stantcheva NN, McGee BM, Boschetti C, Tolleter D, Chakrabortee S, Popova AV, et al. Functional divergence of former alleles in an ancient asexual invertebrate. Science. 2007;318:268–71.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. McLeod LE. Leading with Noble Purpose. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

1. Salvi RJ, Popper AN, Fay RR, editors. Hair Cell Regeneration, Repair, and Protection. New York, NY: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Caine D, Mei-Dan O. Epidemiology of Pediatric and Adolescent Injury in Adventure and Extreme Sports. In: Caine D, Purcell L, editors. Injury in Pediatric and Adolescent Sports: Epidemiology, Treatment and Prevention. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 69–77.

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. Treating ‘Stage 0’ Breast Cancer Doesn’t Always Save Women’s Lives So Should We Screen For It? IFLScience. 2015. 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. Gulf War Illnesses: Preliminary Assessment of DOD Plume Modeling for U.S. Troops’ Exposure to Chemical Agents. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. San Miguel AM. Lived experiences and perceptions on mentoring among Latina scientists and engineers. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2010.

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. Grynbaum MM, Kelly K. Ousted Federal Prosecutor, a Trump Critic, Will Join CNN as an Analyst. New York Times. 2017;:B4.

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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