How to format your references using the Mammalian Genome citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mammalian Genome. 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	Download the output style file
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

Smith MS (2009) Opening education. Science 323:89–93

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwartz MW, Porte D Jr (2005) Diabetes, obesity, and the brain. Science 307:375–379

A journal article with 3 authors

Khor B, Gardet A, Xavier RJ (2011) Genetics and pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease. Nature 474:307–317

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Perraki A, DeFalco TA, Derbyshire P, et al (2018) Phosphocode-dependent functional dichotomy of a common co-receptor in plant signalling. Nature 561:248–252

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Good PI (2013) Introduction to Statistics Through Resampling Methods and R. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Wang J (2014) Human Action Recognition with Depth Cameras. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Piccardi C, Casagrandi R (2009) Remarks on Epidemic Spreading in Scale-Free Networks. In: Chiuso A, Fortuna L, Frasca M, et al. (eds) Modelling, Estimation and Control of Networked Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 77–89

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 Mammalian Genome.

Blog post

Carpineti C (2017) One Of The World’s Leading Astronomers Has A Dire Warning For Humanity. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/one-of-the-worlds-leading-astronomers-has-a-dire-warning-for-humanity/. 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 (2008) Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2008 Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. 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

Olanisa EL (2012) Mental health issues and use of health care services among older immigrant women in California. 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

Hodara S (2017) Progress and Preservation, in a Small-Town Package. New York Times RE8

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Smith 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Schwartz and Porte 2005; Smith 2009).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Schwartz and Porte 2005)
Three or more authors: (Perraki et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mammalian Genome
Abbreviation	Mamm. Genome
ISSN (print)	0938-8990
ISSN (online)	1432-1777
Scope	Genetics