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]

Strome S. Neuroscience. Toward reprogramming gonads to brains. Science 2011;331:292–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wan Z, Zhang G. Controlled synthesis and visible light photocatalytic activity of Bi12GeO20 uniform microcrystals. Sci Rep 2014;4:6298.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bertotti B, Iess L, Tortora P. A test of general relativity using radio links with the Cassini spacecraft. Nature 2003;425:374–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Duft D, Achtzehn T, Müller R, Huber BA, Leisner T. Coulomb fission: Rayleigh jets from levitated microdroplets. Nature 2003;421:128.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Roy D, Rao GV. Elements of Structural Dynamics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Byrnes J, Ostheimer G, editors. Advances in Sensing with Security Applications. vol. 2. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Curé O, Jablonski S. Ontology-Based Data Integration in Data Logistics Workflows. In: Hainaut J-L, Rundensteiner EA, Kirchberg M, Bertolotto M, Brochhausen M, Chen Y-PP, et al., editors. Advances in Conceptual Modeling – Foundations and Applications: ER 2007 Workshops CMLSA, FP-UML, ONISW, QoIS, RIGiM,SeCoGIS, Auckland, New Zealand, November 5-9, 2007. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007, p. 34–43.

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]

Davis J. How Do Cats Always Manage To Land On Their Feet? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-do-cats-land-their-feet/ (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. Commercial Maritime Industry: Updated Information on Federal Assessments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Castillo-Garrison EM. Asilomar Leadership Skills Seminar: The career preparation, advancement, and enhancement of women in California community college leadership. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2012.

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]

LISA W. FODERARO; Reporting for this article was contributed by Ford Fessenden, as well as by Kathleen McGrory in Westchester, Akhtar F, Sophia Chang on, Koblin J, Nate Schweber in, et al. That Sound You Hear? The Market Coming Down to Earth. New York Times 2006:14WC5.

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