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. Arner P. Medicine. Lipases in cachexia. Science. 2011;333:163–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lincoln TA, Joyce GF. Self-sustained replication of an RNA enzyme. Science. 2009;323:1229–32.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Serganov A, Huang L, Patel DJ. Structural insights into amino acid binding and gene control by a lysine riboswitch. Nature. 2008;455:1263–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ryan KM, Ernst MK, Rice NR, Vousden KH. Role of NF-kappaB in p53-mediated programmed cell death. Nature. 2000;404:892–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Alladin A. Integrative CBT for Anxiety Disorders. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Abdul-Wahab SA, editor. Sick Building Syndrome: in Public Buildings and Workplaces. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Symeonidis V, Hay S, Vasileiou K, Psallida A, Karabasis N, Parasidou E. The Future Schools Project: An Educational Initiative to Raise Students’ Voice. In: Montgomery A, Kehoe I, editors. Reimagining the Purpose of Schools and Educational Organisations: Developing Critical Thinking, Agency, Beliefs in Schools and Educational Organisations. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 35–48.

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. Gates Foundation Will Require All Funded Research To Be Open Access [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gates-foundation-will-require-all-funded-research-be-open-acces/

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. National Bureau of Standards Needs Better Management of Its Computer Resources To Improve Program Effectiveness. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979 Apr. Report No.: CED-79-39.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Kim M. Adult ESL Korean readers’ responses about their reading in L1 Korean and L2 English [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 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

1. Kenigsberg B. Shot Caller. New York Times. 2017 Aug 17;C9.

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