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. Dustin ML. Immunology. When F-actin becomes too much of a good thing. Science. 2006;313:767–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jan Y-N, Jan L. Retrospective: Seymour Benzer (1921-2007). Science. 2008;319:45.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Capozza R, Barel I, Urbakh M. Probing and tuning frictional aging at the nanoscale. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1896.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lee KC, Sprague MR, Sussman BJ, Nunn J, Langford NK, Jin X-M, et al. Entangling macroscopic diamonds at room temperature. Science. 2011;334:1253–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Larrieu N, Varet A. Rapid Prototyping of Software for Avionics Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Salsa S. A Primer on PDEs: Models, Methods, Simulations. Vegni FMG, Zaretti A, Zunino P, editors. Milano: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. McLeish T. Academic Freedom, Religion and the Natural Sciences. In: Garcia K, editor. Reexamining Academic Freedom in Religiously Affiliated Universities: Transcending Orthodoxies. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 63–84.

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. Fang J. Killer Cholera Bacterium Stabs Others With Tiny Spear, Steals DNA. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Pipeline Safety: Systematic Process Needed to Evaluate Outcomes of Research and Development Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Jun. Report No.: GAO-03-746.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Pulido BB. Homes as grounding counterspaces: Mexicana undocumented students utilizing mother-daughter pedagogies of resistance to succeed in higher education [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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. Greenhouse L. Justices Say Law Bars Retaliation Over Bias Claims. New York Times. 2008 May 28;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	Standards in Genomic Sciences
Abbreviation	Stand. Genomic Sci.
ISSN (online)	1944-3277
Scope	Genetics

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