How to format your references using the Standards in Genomic Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Standards in Genomic Sciences. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Boyce W. Earth monitoring: vigilance is not enough. Nature. 2007;450:791–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Conway G, Toenniessen G. Agriculture. Science for African food security. Science. 2003;299:1187–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bliokh KY, Smirnova D, Nori F. OPTICS. Quantum spin Hall effect of light. Science. 2015;348:1448–51.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Eubank S, Guclu H, Kumar VSA, Marathe MV, Srinivasan A, Toroczkai Z, et al. Modelling disease outbreaks in realistic urban social networks. Nature. 2004;429:180–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Scot L. The Simplified Guide to Not-for-Profit Accounting, Formation, and Reporting. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Perner P, editor. Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition: 9th International Conference, MLDM 2013, New York, NY, USA, July 19-25, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Peng R-H, Xiong A-S, Xue Y, Fu X-Y, Gao F, Zhao W, et al. A Profile of Ring-hydroxylating Oxygenases that Degrade Aromatic Pollutants. In: Whitacre DM, editor. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 206. New York, NY: Springer; 2010. p. 65–94.

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 Standards in Genomic Sciences.

Blog post

1. Hale T. CT Scan Show’s Man’s Pancreas Caked In Calcium. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Status of Emergency and State and Local Law Enforcement Systems Is Still Unknown. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Apr. Report No.: T-AIMD-99-163.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Reser G. Assessing the Relationship between Adult Attachment and Differentiation of Self to Coparental Divorce Adjustment [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral 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

1. Longman J. A Description as Enigmatic as How to Escape a Slump. New York Times. 2015 Dec 19;SP5.

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	Standards in Genomic Sciences
Abbreviation	Stand. Genomic Sci.
ISSN (online)	1944-3277
Scope	Genetics