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

Ingham PW. Hedgehog signaling: a tale of two lipids. Science 2001; 294: 1879–1881.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boguski MS, McIntosh MW. Biomedical informatics for proteomics. Nature 2003; 422: 233–237.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oppo DW, Rosenthal Y, Linsley BK. 2,000-year-long temperature and hydrology reconstructions from the Indo-Pacific warm pool. Nature 2009; 460: 1113–1116.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Khan RS, Martinez MD, Sy JC, Pendergrass KD, Che P-L, Brown ME et al. Targeting extracellular DNA to deliver IGF-1 to the injured heart. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 4257.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kazimierczuk MK. RF Power Amplifiers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

Azziz R, Nestler JE, Dewailly D (eds.). Androgen Excess Disorders in Women: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Other Disorders. Second Edition. Humana Press: Totowa, NJ, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Swaab DF. Sexual Differentiation of the Human Brain and Male/Female Behaviour. In: Beets G, Schippers J, te Velde ER (eds). The Future of Motherhood in Western Societies: Late Fertility and its Consequences. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2011, pp 33–47.

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

Andrew D. Influenza: The Search For A Universal Vaccine. IFLScience. 2017.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/influenza-the-search-for-a-universal-vaccine/ (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. Scientific Research: Continued Vigilance Critical to Protecting Human Subjects. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vento-Wilson M. The role of the speech-language pathologist and augmentative and alternative communication with acute care patients with severe communication impairments. 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

LaFRANIERE S, Palmer E. In 130 of Worst Shootings, Vision of Porous Gun Laws. New York Times. 2016; : A1.

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