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]

Smaglik P. Where are all the students? Nature 2002;420:3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Shinnar R, Citro F. Energy. A road map to U.S. decarbonization. Science 2006;313:1243–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Koonin EV, Wolf YI, Karev GP. The structure of the protein universe and genome evolution. Nature 2002;420:218–23.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bayer KU, De Koninck P, Leonard AS, Hell JW, Schulman H. Interaction with the NMDA receptor locks CaMKII in an active conformation. Nature 2001;411:801–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Pahl J. Interference Analysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Garcia A, Choren R, Lucena C, Giorgini P, Holvoet T, Romanovsky A, editors. Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV: Research Issues and Practical Applications. vol. 3914. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Scaglione A, Peter Hong Y-W, Mergen BS. Cooperative Strategies in Dense Sensor Networks. In: Ferrari G, editor. Sensor Networks: Where Theory Meets Practice, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 61–74.

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]

Andrew D. Europe’s Lost Mars Lander Probably “Exploded On Impact” — See The Photos. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/europes-lost-mars-lander-probably-exploded-on-impact-see-the-photos/ (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. Guarantee Agency Funding, Operations, and Reserves Under the Guaranteed Student Loan Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kolakoski M. The appeal to be heard and the trope of listening in classic film and African American literature. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 2013.

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]

Southall A, White R. Gunman Fires at Moving S.U.V. in Queens, Killing One and Wounding Three Others. New York Times 2014:A17.

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
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