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

Gnecco E. Nanotechnology: A gentle jackhammer. Nature 2009; 461:178–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fukuchi-Shimogori T, Grove EA. Neocortex patterning by the secreted signaling molecule FGF8. Science 2001; 294:1071–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sudhakar YA, Verma RK, Pawar SC. Type IV collagen α1-chain noncollagenous domain blocks MMP-2 activation both in-vitro and in-vivo. Sci Rep 2014; 4:4136.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kerry PS, Mohan S, Russell RJM, Bance N, Niikura M, Pinto BM. Structural basis for a class of nanomolar influenza A neuraminidase inhibitors. Sci Rep 2013; 3:2871.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jank W, Shmueli G. Modeling Online Auctions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Taniar D, Gervasi O, Murgante B, Pardede E, Apduhan BO, editors. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2010: International Conference, Fukuoka, Japan, March 23-26, 2010, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Isabelle AD, Valle NZ. Technology. In: Valle NZ, editor. Inspiring STEM Minds: Biographies and Activities for Elementary Classrooms. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2016. page 87–102.

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

Luntz S. Do Elephants Call “Human”? [Internet]. IFLScience2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/do-elephants-call-human/

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. U.S. Objectives Generally Achieved at Broadcasting Satellite International Conference--Improvements Can Help in Future Conferences. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1984.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Slabaugh JL. The Occurrence of Alternans and Arrhythmias in a Multicellular, Cardiac Preparation. 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

Smith M. Minneapolis Police Chief Is Forced Out. New York Times2017; :A12.

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