[SIGS Instructions to Authors]
Authors are encouraged to format, but not required, to use EndNote-based citations of references in their manuscripts. For the formatting of references in the bibliography, the style file for EndNote is freely available to download: Standards in Genomic Sciences.ens
Citation in text is done by numbers in brackets. References are numbered in their order of appearance in the manuscript.
As shown in the example below, author names are to be given as last names (surnames) first followed by the initials of the authors' first and middle (given) names. Italicized portions of article titles should be conserved. This especially relates to conventions for italicization should be followed in the referenced article titles for organism names.
Example citations:
1. Angiuoli SV, Gussman A, Klimke W, Cochrane G, Field D, Garrity G, Kodira CD, Kyrpides N, Madupu R, Markowitz V et al. Toward an online repository of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for (meta)genomic annotation. OMICS 2008;12(2):137-41.
2. Field D, Garrity G, Gray T, Morrison N, Selengut J, Sterk P, Tatusova T, Thomson N, Allen MJ, Angiuoli SV et al. The minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification. Nat Biotechnol 2008;26(5):541-7.
3. Garrity GM, Field D, Kyrpides N, Hirschman L, Sansone SA, Angiuoli S, Cole JR, Glockner FO, Kolker E, Kowalchuk G et al. Toward a standards-compliant genomic and metagenomic publication record. OMICS 2008;12(2):157-60.
4. Cinkosky MJ, Fickett JW, Gilna P, Burks C. Electronic data publishing and GenBank. Science 1991;252(5010):1273-7.
5. Gross R, Guzman CA, Sebaihia M, dos Santos VA, Pieper DH, Koebnik R, Lechner M, Bartels D, Buhrmester J, Choudhuri JV, et al. The missing link: Bordetella petrii is endowed with both the metabolic versatility of environmental bacteria and virulence traits of pathogenic Bordetellae. BMC Genomics 2008;9:449.
Authors are encouraged to use a full complement of references that cite fully the materials, methods and related observations.
Acknowledgements
We would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of many members of the Genomic Standards Consortium, the broader genomic science community, and those who have indicated their willingness to serve as editors, reviewers and contributors.
Funding for SIGS is provided by a grant from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at Michigan State University, the Michigan State University Foundation, and the US Department of Energy Biological and Environmental Research DE-FG02-08ER64707.
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