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

Smaglik P (2004) Swatting flies. Nature 429:111

A journal article with 2 authors

Woodroffe R, Redpath SM (2015) CONSERVATION. When the hunter becomes the hunted. Science 348:1312–1314

A journal article with 3 authors

van den Engh G, Nelson P, Roach J (2000) Numismatic gyrations. Nature 408:540

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Singh V, Rai RK, Arora A, et al (2014) Therapeutic implication of L-phenylalanine aggregation mechanism and its modulation by D-phenylalanine in phenylketonuria. Sci Rep 4:3875

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnson JL (1997) Probability and Statistics for Computer Science. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Gao W (2015) Graphene Oxide: Reduction Recipes, Spectroscopy, and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Gentile NA (2008) Implicit Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Simulations of Four Test Problems. In: Graziani F (ed) Computational Methods in Transport: Verification and Validation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 135–150

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) Researchers And Politicians Slam The War On Drugs As A Failure. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-politicians-slam-war-drugs-failure/. 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 (2012) Aviation Security: Status of TSA’s Acquisition of Technology for Screening Passenger Identification and Boarding Passes. 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

Coppock JE (2017) Optical and Magnetic Measurements of a Levitated, Gyroscopically Stabilized Graphene Nanoplatelet. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Haigney S, Cooper M (2017) Who’s Calling? It May Be The Opera. New York Times C1

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