How to format your references using the Pharmacogenomics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pharmacogenomics. 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

Good MF. Immunology. Pasteur approach to a malaria vaccine may take the lead. Science 341(6152), 1352–1353 (2013).

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang L, Huang HW. Observation of a membrane fusion intermediate structure. Science 297(5588), 1877–1879 (2002).

A journal article with 3 authors

Lane M, Robker RL, Robertson SA. Parenting from before conception. Science 345(6198), 756–760 (2014).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tachibana M, Sparman M, Sritanaudomchai H et al. Mitochondrial gene replacement in primate offspring and embryonic stem cells. Nature 461(7262), 367–372 (2009).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown T, Andrews GJ, Cummins S, Greenhough B, Lewis D, Power A. Health Geographies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2017).

An edited book

Clemm A, Granville LZ, Stadler R (Eds.). Managing Virtualization of Networks and Services: 18th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 2007, San José, CA, USA, October 29-31, 2007. Proceedings. (Volume 4785). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2007).

A chapter in an edited book

Plaza A, Plaza J, Valencia D. AMEEPAR: Parallel Morphological Algorithm for Hyperspectral Image Classification on Heterogeneous Networks of Workstations. In: Computational Science – ICCS 2006: 6th International Conference, Reading, UK, May 28-31, 2006. Proceedings, Part III. Alexandrov VN, Albada GD van, Sloot PMA, Dongarra J (Ed.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 24–31 (2006).

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 Pharmacogenomics.

Blog post

Andrew E. ‘This Exoskeleton Allows Paralyzed People To Walk’ (2015).

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. Railroad Safety: DOT Should Better Manage Its Hazardous Materials Inspection Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (1989).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Danso Odei PK. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, (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

Ewing J, Tabuchi H, Protess B. Volkswagen Said to Be Near Deal With U.S. in Diesel Case, (2017).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Pharmacogenomics
Abbreviation	Pharmacogenomics
ISSN (print)	1462-2416
ISSN (online)	1744-8042
Scope	Genetics Molecular Medicine Pharmacology