How to format your references using the Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Structural and Functional 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	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

Mervis J (2000) NSF IN FLUX: NSF Searches for Right Way to Help Women. Science 289:379–381

A journal article with 2 authors

Rez P, Treacy MMJ (2013) Three-dimensional imaging of dislocations. Nature 503:E1

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen AE, Ginty DD, Fan C-M (2005) Protein kinase A signalling via CREB controls myogenesis induced by Wnt proteins. Nature 433:317–322

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Robinson P, Harrison RJ, McEnroe SA, Hargraves RB (2002) Lamellar magnetism in the haematite-ilmenite series as an explanation for strong remanent magnetization. Nature 418:517–520

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ho RJY, Gibaldi M (2003) Biotechnology and Biopharmaceuticals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Mann A (2013) The Innovative CIO: How IT Leaders Can Drive Business Transformation. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Kaushik BK, Majumder MK (2015) Mixed Carbon Nanotube Bundle. In: Majumder MK (ed) Carbon Nanotube Based VLSI Interconnects: Analysis and Design. Springer India, New Delhi, pp 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 Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) MDMA Levels In Ecstasy Tablets Are Now Higher Than Ever. In: IFLScience. 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

Government Accountability Office (1982) Trends in Evaluation. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ravilla S (2013) Correlation between diabetes and periodontitis. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Sisario B (2017) Licensing Accord Eases Spotify’s Path to Going Public. New York Times B3

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	Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
Abbreviation	J. Struct. Funct. Genomics
ISSN (print)	1345-711X
ISSN (online)	1570-0267
Scope	Biochemistry Genetics Structural Biology General Medicine