How to format your references using the Physiological Genomics citation style

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

Norell MA. Paleontology. Fossilized feathers. Science 333: 1590–1591, 2011.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bilham R, England P. Plateau “pop-up” in the great 1897 Assam earthquake. Nature 410: 806–809, 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cheianov VV, Fal’ko V, Altshuler BL. The focusing of electron flow and a Veselago lens in graphene p-n junctions. Science 315: 1252–1255, 2007.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sun W, Tanaka TQ, Magle CT, Huang W, Southall N, Huang R, Dehdashti SJ, McKew JC, Williamson KC, Zheng W. Chemical signatures and new drug targets for gametocytocidal drug development. Sci Rep 4: 3743, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krabbes G, Fuchs G, Canders W-R, May H, Palka R. High Temperature Superconductor Bulk Materials. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2006.

An edited book

Benner P, Sorensen DC, Mehrmann V, editors. Dimension Reduction of Large-Scale Systems: Proceedings of a Workshop held in Oberwolfach, Germany, October 19–25, 2003. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Moffett DF, Onken H. The Cellular Basis of Extreme Alkali Secretion in Insects: A Tale of Two Tissues. In: Epithelial Transport Physiology, edited by Gerencser GA. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2010, p. 91–112.

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 Physiological Genomics.

Blog post

Hale T. Apparently No One Knows Where Loofahs Come From. IFLScience IFLScience: 2017.

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. Embedded Computer Systems: C-17 Software Development Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pobat M. It is all in the Mind of the Manager—Using Cognitive Complexity to Explore the Global Mindset—A Comparative Case Study. George Washington University: 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

Hubbard B. Decline in Oil Prices Lands on Government Workers as Saudi Arabia Cuts Paychecks. New York Times: A6, 2016.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Physiological Genomics
Abbreviation	Physiol. Genomics
ISSN (print)	1094-8341
ISSN (online)	1531-2267
Scope	Genetics Physiology