How to format your references using the OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology (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

Rochaix J-D. Plant Science. Fine-Tuning Photosynthesis. Science 2013;342(6154):50–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bhattacharya K and James RD. Applied Physics. The Material Is the Machine. Science 2005;307(5706):53–54.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xia K, Rosakis AJ and Kanamori H. Laboratory Earthquakes: The Sub-Rayleigh-to-Supershear Rupture Transition. Science 2004;303(5665):1859–1861.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Won S, Saun S-B, Lee S, et al. NMR Spectroscopy for Thin Films by Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy. Sci Rep 2013;3:3189.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thiessen H. Measuring the Real World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,: West Sussex, England; 1996.

An edited book

Bramer M and Terziyan V, (eds). Industrial Applications of Semantic Web: Proceedings of the 1st IFIP WG12.5 Working Conference on Industrial Applications of Semantic Web, August 25–27, 2005, Jyväskylä, Finland. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer US: Boston, MA; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Berghammer R and Kehden B. Relation Algebra and RelView in Practical Use: Construction of Special University Timetables. In: Relations and Kleene Algebra in Computer Science: 10th International Conference on Relational Methods in Computer Science, and 5th International Conference on Applications of Kleene Algebra, RelMiCS/AKA 2008, Frauenwörth, Germany, April 7-11, 2008. Proceedings. (Berghammer R, Möller B, and Struth G. eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2008; pp. 22–36.

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 OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. April Fools’ Day Comet To Swing By Earth This Weekend. IFLScience; 2017. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/april-fools-day-comet-to-swing-by-earth-this-weekend/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office. Drug Control: Status Report on Counterdrug Technology Development. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Quiroz CA. A Community Risk Assessment of 90032. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA; 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

Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times 2017;MM20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Rochaix, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Bhattacharya and James, 2005; Rochaix, 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Bhattacharya and James, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Won et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology
ISSN (print)	1536-2310
ISSN (online)	1557-8100
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