How to format your references using the Public Health Genomics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Public Health 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

Delude C. Tumorigenesis: Testing ground for cancer stem cells. Nature. 2011 Dec;480(7377):S43-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ho L, Crabtree GR. Chromatin remodelling during development. Nature. 2010 Jan;463(7280):474–84.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khudiyev T, Tobail O, Bayindir M. Tailoring self-organized nanostructured morphologies in kilometer-long polymer fiber. Sci Rep. 2014 May;4:4864.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Vastenhouw NL, Brunschwig K, Okihara KL, Müller F, Tijsterman M, Plasterk RHA. Gene expression: long-term gene silencing by RNAi. Nature. 2006 Aug;442(7105):882.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bitton G. Microbiology of Drinking Water. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Stark MM, editor. Clinical Forensic Medicine: A Physician’s Guide. Second Edition. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Nishida T. Towards Conversational Artifacts. In: Hu B, Liu J, Chen L, Zhong N, editors. Brain Informatics: International Conference, BI 2011, Lanzhou, China, September 7-9, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011; pp 22–7.

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 Public Health Genomics.

Blog post

Davis J. Experimental Treatment Reverses Behavioral Symptoms Of Rett Syndrome In Mice [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Jul [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/experimental-treatment-shown-reverse-behavioral-symptoms-rett-syndrome-mice/

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. FAA Information Resources: Agency Needs to Correct Widespread Deficiencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Turpie KR. Enhancement of a canopy reflectance model for understanding the specular and spectral effects of an aquatic background in an inundated tidal marsh. 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

Caschetta MB. What Wasn’t Passed On. New York Times. 2011 Dec;ST6.

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	Public Health Genomics
Abbreviation	Public Health Genomics
ISSN (print)	1662-4246
ISSN (online)	1662-8063
Scope	Genetics(clinical) Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health