How to format your references using the Organogenesis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Organogenesis. 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	Download the output style file
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

Cash W. Detection of Earth-like planets around nearby stars using a petal-shaped occulter. Nature 2006; 442:51–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Horvitz E, Mulligan D. Policy forum. Data, privacy, and the greater good. Science 2015; 349:253–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoshida M-A, Yura K, Ogura A. Cephalopod eye evolution was modulated by the acquisition of Pax-6 splicing variants. Sci Rep 2014; 4:4256.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kenney GE, Dassama LMK, Pandelia M-E, Gizzi AS, Martinie RJ, Gao P, DeHart CJ, Schachner LF, Skinner OS, Ro SY, et al. The biosynthesis of methanobactin. Science 2018; 359:1411–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goldstein LSB, Schneider M. Stem Cells for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Nguyen N-T, Le-Thi HA, editors. Transactions on Computational Intelligence XIII. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Lei Y, Ding X, Wang S. Adaptive Sparse Vector Tracking Via Online Bayesian Learning. In: Zheng N, Jiang X, Lan X, editors. Advances in Machine Vision, Image Processing, and Pattern Analysis: International Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Pattern Analysis/Synthesis, IWICPAS 2006 Xi’an, China, August 26-27, 2006 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. page 35–45.

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 Organogenesis.

Blog post

Andrew D. Why It Is Useful To Understand The Role Of Genetics In Behaviour [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-it-is-useful-to-understand-the-role-of-genetics-in-behaviour/

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. Information Technology: Executive office for U.S. Attorneys Needs to Institutionalize Key IT Management Disciplines. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rodriguez JM. A recruitment campaign for Latino non-kin foster parents: A grant proposal. 2011;

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Move For Life Terms For Terrorists. New York Times2004; :A13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Organogenesis
Abbreviation	Organogenesis
ISSN (print)	1547-6278
ISSN (online)	1555-8592
Scope	Developmental Biology Biomedical Engineering Embryology Transplantation