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

Garber K. Biochemistry: A radical treatment. Nature. 2012 Sep;489(7417):S4-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Langley JA, Megonigal JP. Ecosystem response to elevated CO(2) levels limited by nitrogen-induced plant species shift. Nature. 2010 Jul;466(7302):96–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shema R, Sacktor TC, Dudai Y. Rapid erasure of long-term memory associations in the cortex by an inhibitor of PKM zeta. Science. 2007 Aug;317(5840):951–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Humphries NE, Queiroz N, Dyer JRM, Pade NG, Musyl MK, Schaefer KM, et al. Environmental context explains Lévy and Brownian movement patterns of marine predators. Nature. 2010 Jun;465(7301):1066–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jarry P, Beneat JN. Microwave Amplifier and Active Circuit Design Using the Real Frequency Technique. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

Singh S, Singh M, Apte C, Perner P, editors. Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: Third International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition, ICAPR 2005, Bath, UK, August 22-25, 2005, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Pisano A, Verniero L, Masserini F. Prone Positioning to Reduce Mortality in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. In: Landoni G, Mucchetti M, Zangrillo A, Bellomo R, editors. Reducing Mortality in Critically Ill Patients. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015; pp 31–8.

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

Fang J. How Borneo’s Unique Mountain Wildlife Evolved [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Aug [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-borneos-unique-mountain-wildlife-evolved/

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. Coast Guard: Clarifying the Application of Guidance for Common Operational Picture Development Would Strengthen Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kim JW. Perceptually motivated automatic dance motion generation for music. 2009

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

Kleinfield NR, Rashbaum WK. Possible Clues In Fatal Chase, But No Motive. New York Times. 2013 Oct;A1.

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

Research and Writing Guides