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]

Couzin-Frankel J. The elusive heart fix. Science 2014;345:252–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gurao NP, Suwas S. Generalized scaling of misorientation angle distributions at meso-scale in deformed materials. Sci Rep 2014;4:5641.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Homer H, Gui L, Carroll J. A spindle assembly checkpoint protein functions in prophase I arrest and prometaphase progression. Science 2009;326:991–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Fan HS, Wang H, Zhao N, Xu J, Pan F. Nano-porous architecture of N-doped carbon nanorods grown on graphene to enable synergetic effects of supercapacitance. Sci Rep 2014;4:7426.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Schroeder K, Thompson T, Frith K, Pencheon D. Sustainable Healthcare. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Norman RA. Atlas of Geriatric Dermatology. London: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kou G, Ergu D, Peng Y, Shi Y. IBMM for Missing Data Estimation. In: Ergu D, Peng Y, Shi Y, editors. Data Processing for the AHP/ANP, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 65–75.

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 E. The Massive Waste Happening In Mosquito-Borne Disease Research. IFLScience 2015.

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. Internal Revenue Service: 2001 Tax Filing Season, Systems Modernization, and Security of Electronic Filing. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Holmstedt C. Low voltage switched-current cell and its application. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Belarus: New Law Restricts Religions. New York Times 2002:A7.

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

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