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

Forbes P. Poetry and science: greatness in little. Nature 2005; 434:320–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Volkow ND, Baler RD. Neuroscience. To stop or not to stop? Science 2012; 335:546–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu L-A, Walther P, Lidar DA. No-go theorem for passive single-rail linear optical quantum computing. Sci Rep 2013; 3:1394.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Drögemüller C, Karlsson EK, Hytönen MK, Perloski M, Dolf G, Sainio K, Lohi H, Lindblad-Toh K, Leeb T. A mutation in hairless dogs implicates FOXI3 in ectodermal development. Science 2008; 321:1462.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cann AJ. Mathe für Biologen. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

Tiryakioğlu M, Campbell J, Byczynski G, editors. Shape Casting: 5th International Symposium 2014. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Favre J-M, Gašević D, Lämmel R, Winter A. 4th International Workshop on Language Engineering (ATEM 2007). In: Giese H, editor. Models in Software Engineering: Workshops and Symposia at MoDELS 2007, Nashville, TN, USA, September 30 - October 5, 2007, Reports and Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. page 28–33.

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

Andrews R. Thousands Of People Have Been Evacuated In Canada After City-Sized Wildfires Spread Out Of Control [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/city-sized-alberta-wildfires-driven-climate-change-and-powerful-el-ni-o/

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. Higher Education: Multiple Higher Education Tax Incentives Create Opportunities for Taxpayers to Make Costly Mistakes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Richard K. College Programs in Women’s Prisons: Faculty Perceptions of Teaching Higher Education Behind Bars. 2017;

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

Thomas K. Drug Company Enlists Doctors Under Scrutiny. New York Times2014; :A1.

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

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