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

Albarède F. Rogue mantle helium and neon. Science 319: 943–945, 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang K, Rathod PK. Divergent regulation of dihydrofolate reductase between malaria parasite and human host. Science 296: 545–547, 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Laubach M, Wessberg J, Nicolelis MA. Cortical ensemble activity increasingly predicts behaviour outcomes during learning of a motor task. Nature 405: 567–571, 2000.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhong Z, Wang D, Cui Y, Bockrath MW, Lieber CM. Nanowire crossbar arrays as address decoders for integrated nanosystems. Science 302: 1377–1379, 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blanchet G, Charbit M. Digital Signal and Image Processing Using Matlab®. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015.

An edited book

Freitas VP de de, Delgado JMPQ, editors. Durability of Building Materials and Components. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Xu J, Zhang Q, Huang X. Personalized Hashtag Suggestion for Microblogs. In: Social Media Processing: 4th National Conference, SMP 2015, Guangzhou, China, November 16-17, 2015, Proceedings, edited by Zhang X, Sun M, Wang Z, Huang X. Singapore: Springer, 2015, p. 38–50.

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

Hamilton K. What Will The World Actually Look Like At 1.5°C Of Warming? [Online]. IFLScience IFLScience: 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-will-the-world-actually-look-like-at-1-point-5c-of-warming/ [30 Oct. 2018].

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. Direct Student Loans: Additional Steps Would Increase Borrowers’ Awareness of Electronic Debiting and Reduce Federal Administrative Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Copeland EJ. A grant proposal for individuals with severe mental illness. California State University, Long Beach: 2010.

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

Vecsey G. At All-Star Game, Politics and Passion Are Also in Play. New York Times: D2, 2011.

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

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