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

Merlin R. Radiationless electromagnetic interference: evanescent-field lenses and perfect focusing. Science. 317(5840), 927–929 (2007).

A journal article with 2 authors

Schnell JR, Chou JJ. Structure and mechanism of the M2 proton channel of influenza A virus. Nature. 451(7178), 591–595 (2008).

A journal article with 3 authors

Gizon L, Duvall TL, Schou J. Wave-like properties of solar supergranulation. Nature. 421(6918), 43–44 (2003).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Raghuraman MK, Winzeler EA, Collingwood D, et al. Replication dynamics of the yeast genome. Science. 294(5540), 115–121 (2001).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson JC, Naeim F. Basic Structural Dynamics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Rossmann MG, Rao VB, editors. Viral Molecular Machines. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Becerra HM, Sagüés C. Conclusions. In: Visual Control of Wheeled Mobile Robots: Unifying Vision and Control in Generic Approaches. Sagüés C (Ed.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 99–101 (2014).

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. Sino-Tibetan Populations Shed Light On Human Cooperation. IFLScience (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. Composite Health Care System: Outpatient Capability Is Nearly Ready for Worldwide Deployment. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ficchi G. A Qualitative Inquiry: Parental Approaches and Expectations, What Role Does Disability Play? (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

Seymour M. How About a Nightcap? New York Times, BR11 (2015).

In-text citations

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

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