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

Simon JA. Transcription. Sweet silencing. Science 2009; 325:45–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rowan L, Coontz R. Great balls of fire. Star formation: a Web supplement. Science 2002; 295:63.

A journal article with 3 authors

Michel P, Benz W, Richardson DC. Disruption of fragmented parent bodies as the origin of asteroid families. Nature 2003; 421:608–11.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Setogawa S, Yamaura H, Arasaki T, Endo S, Yanagihara D. Deficits in memory-guided limb movements impair obstacle avoidance locomotion in Alzheimer’s disease mouse model. Sci Rep 2014; 4:7220.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Use of Vapor Cloud Dispersion Models. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1996.

An edited book

Mišćenić E, Raccah A, editors. Legal Risks in EU Law: Interdisciplinary Studies on Legal Risk Management and Better Regulation in Europe. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Skjerdal T. Why the Arab Spring Never Came to Ethiopia. In: Mutsvairo B, editor. Participatory Politics and Citizen Journalism in a Networked Africa: A Connected Continent. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. page 77–89.

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 E. Could A Robot Do Your Job? Short Answer: Yes [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/could-robot-do-your-job-short-answer-yes/

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: Numerous Federal Networks Used to Support Homeland Security Need to Be Better Coordinated with Key State and Local Information-Sharing Initiatives. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mukherjee N. Development of High Sensitivity Bending Mode Polymer Piezoelectric Devices for Inner Ear Implantation. 2003;

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

Crow K. Judge Won’t Lock the Stable Until Horses Have a Home. New York Times2002; :146.

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