How to format your references using the The Pharmacogenomics Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Pharmacogenomics Journal. 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

Jackson I I. Taking the Earth’s temperature. Nature 2000; 406: 470–471.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miller FD, Kaplan DR. Neurobiology. TRK makes the retrograde. Science 2002; 295: 1471–1473.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chih B, Engelman H, Scheiffele P. Control of excitatory and inhibitory synapse formation by neuroligins. Science 2005; 307: 1324–1328.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang Y, Jorda M, Jones PL, Maleszka R, Ling X, Robertson HM et al. Functional CpG methylation system in a social insect. Science 2006; 314: 645–647.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gray KA, Paschkewitz JJ. Next Generation HALT and HASS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

Fastl H. Psychoacoustics: Facts and Models. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Aalbers MB. How Do Mortgage Lenders Influence Neighbourhood Dynamics? Redlining and Predatory Lending. In: van Ham M, Manley D, Bailey N, Simpson L, Maclennan D (eds). Understanding Neighbourhood Dynamics: New Insights for Neighbourhood Effects Research. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2013, pp 63–85.

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 The Pharmacogenomics Journal.

Blog post

Luntz S. Astronomers Observe Traces Of A Galactic Dance. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/space/traces-seen-galactic-dance/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Aviation Security: Transportation Security Administration May Face Resource and Other Challenges in Developing a System to Screen All Cargo Transported on Passenger Aircraft. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gonzales RA. Health care team effectiveness: The relationship between team task interdependence and group emotional competence. 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

Grynbaum MM, Koblin J. For Fox News, Life After Bill O’Reilly Will Feature Tucker Carlson. New York Times. 2017; : B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	The Pharmacogenomics Journal
Abbreviation	Pharmacogenomics J.
ISSN (print)	1470-269X
ISSN (online)	1473-1150
Scope	Genetics Molecular Medicine Pharmacology