How to format your references using the Medicine in Omics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Medicine in Omics. 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]

Koenig R. EUROPEAN SCIENCE: Research Behemoth Slated for Overhaul. Science 2000;289:2019b.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hernanz M, Sala G. A classical nova, V2487 Oph 1998, seen in x-rays before and after its explosion. Science 2002;298:393–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Adini Y, Sagi D, Tsodyks M. Context-enabled learning in the human visual system. Nature 2002;415:790–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Smith GP, Wiens DA, Fischer KM, Dorman LM, Webb SC, Hildebrand JA. A complex pattern of mantle flow in the Lau backarc. Science 2001;292:713–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ancheyta J. Modeling and Simulation of Catalytic Reactors for Petroleum Refining. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Aggarwal CC, editor. Managing and Mining Sensor Data. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yanguas-Gil A, Wormeester H. Relationship Between Surface Morphology and Effective Medium Roughness. In: Losurdo M, Hingerl K, editors. Ellipsometry at the Nanoscale, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 179–202.

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 Medicine in Omics.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Playing Around Doesn’t Make Male Chimpanzees Bad Fathers. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/playing-around-doesnt-make-male-chimpanzees-bad-fathers/ (accessed October 30, 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. Indian Affairs: Preliminary Results Show Continued Challenges to the Oversight and Support of Education Facilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Julian A. Guided Autobiography Themes for Older Adult United States War Veterans. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Mishan L. The Taste of Darkness. New York Times 2017:M2166.

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	Medicine in Omics
ISSN (print)	2590-1249
Scope