CBSE citation format

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CBSE has requested that we standardise on the PubMed citation format throughout the genome browser.

Here is a link to the PubMed Journal Article Citation Format. If you can't find an existing example on this page of how to create a citation, just look up the article in PubMed, then cut/paste the entire citation.

PubMed, in turn, uses the ANSI/NISO Z39.29-2005 Bibliographic References standard pdf as the basis for their format standards.


Here is a sample of the approved style:

Bejerano G, Lowe CB, Ahituv N, King B, Siepel A, Salama SR, Rubin EM, Kent WJ, Haussler D. A distal enhancer and an ultraconserved exon are derived from a novel retroposon. Nature. 2006 May 4;441(7089):87-90.

Chapter in a book:

Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002. p. 93-113.


The Publications page in the genome browser has been updated to reflect this style. Please follow this style for all future citations used in the browser.

Details:

  • If there are more than ten authors, list only the first 10 then use et al.
  • If the journal name is abbreviated, do not include periods within the abbreviated name (but do include a period after the journal name, as always).
  • If you have a choice, point to an abstract version of the paper rather than the entire full paper.
  • List citations in alphabetical order.

To cite a paper within text:

Citations should be like this: (Lastname, et al. YEAR). An example is: (Kent, et al. 2010). Obviously, if there is only one author, do not include the "et al."