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

Forbes P. Poetry and science: greatness in little. Nature. 2005 Mar;434(7031):320–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ibn-Elhaj M, Schadt M. Optical polymer thin films with isotropic and anisotropic nano-corrugated surface topologies. Nature. 2001 Apr;410(6830):796–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morens DM, Subbarao K, Taubenberger JK. Engineering H5N1 avian influenza viruses to study human adaptation. Nature. 2012 Jun;486(7403):335–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chowell D, Morris LGT, Grigg CM, Weber JK, Samstein RM, Makarov V, et al. Patient HLA class I genotype influences cancer response to checkpoint blockade immunotherapy. Science. 2018 Feb;359(6375):582–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paul CR. Transmission Lines in Digital Systems for EMC Practitioners. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Meduna A. Regulated Grammars and Automata. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Ronit K. Global Business Associations, Self-Regulation and Consumer Policy. In: Lang A, Murphy H, editors. Business and Sustainability: Between Government Pressure and Self-Regulation. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014; pp 61–79.

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

Carpineti A. Two Nearby Earth-Sized Exoplanets Confirmed To Be Rocky [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Jul [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/two-nearby-earthsized-exoplanets-confirmed-to-be-rocky/

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. Transportation Security Administration: Clear Policies and Oversight Needed for Designation of Sensitive Security Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Walsh MA. Passage. 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

Feeney K. Visiting the Fish Market, Ready to Eat. New York Times. 2010 Aug;NJ9.

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