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]

Hochstrasser M. Origin and function of ubiquitin-like proteins. Nature 2009;458:422–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Jaffe M, Allam S. POLYMER CHEMISTRY. Safer fuels by integrating polymer theory into design. Science 2015;350:32.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Schreiber RD, Old LJ, Smyth MJ. Cancer immunoediting: integrating immunity’s roles in cancer suppression and promotion. Science 2011;331:1565–70.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Barends TRM, Hartmann E, Griese JJ, Beitlich T, Kirienko NV, Ryjenkov DA, et al. Structure and mechanism of a bacterial light-regulated cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase. Nature 2009;459:1015–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hanzo L, Keller T. OFDM and MC-CDMA. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Jajodia S, Kant K, Samarati P, Singhal A, Swarup V, Wang C, editors. Secure Cloud Computing. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Nolte A, Prilla M. Normal Users Cooperating on Process Models: Is It Possible at All? In: Herskovic V, Hoppe HU, Jansen M, Ziegler J, editors. Collaboration and Technology: 18th International Conference, CRIWG 2012 Raesfeld, Germany, September 16-19, 2012 Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 57–72.

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]

Hamilton K. Scientists Pinpoint Neurons In The Brain That Regulate Thirst. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-pinpoint-neurons-brain-regulate-thirst/ (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. Telecommunications: Additional Coordination and Performance Measurement Needed for High-Speed Internet Access Programs on Tribal Lands. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wead MO. Fear and Doubt. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.

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]

Rosenberg E, Stack L. Times Square Chaos as Driver Kills a Woman and Injures 22. New York Times 2017:A1.

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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