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. Dowdeswell JA. Atmospheric science. The Greenland Ice Sheet and global sea-level rise. Science. 2006;311:963–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Duffy PE, Fried M. Biomedicine. Turncoat antibodies. Science. 2001;293:2009–10.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kotiaho JS, Simmons LW, Tomkins JL. Towards a resolution of the lek paradox. Nature. 2001;410:684–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Bearhop S, Fiedler W, Furness RW, Votier SC, Waldron S, Newton J, et al. Assortative mating as a mechanism for rapid evolution of a migratory divide. Science. 2005;310:502–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Prud’Homme R. Flows and Chemical Reactions in an Electromagnetic Field. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Takadama K, Cioffi-Revilla C, Deffuant G, editors. Simulating Interacting Agents and Social Phenomena: The Second World Congress. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Singh SC. Geophysical Viewpoints for Groundwater Resource Development and Management in Coastal Tracts. In: Wetzelhuetter C, editor. Groundwater in the Coastal Zones of Asia-Pacific. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 67–87.

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. Andrew E. Mid-Sized Planetary Body in Kuiper Belt Could Float In Water. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2013.

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. Farm Program Modernization: Farm Service Agency Needs to Demonstrate the Capacity to Manage IT Initiatives. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015 Jun. Report No.: GAO-15-506.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Yobby J. Application of Genetic Algorithm Optimization of Thermodynamic Fluids Designs [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2017.

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. Kelly DA. New Audio Books Pack a Lot More Prose. New York Times. 2006 May 14;TR6.

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