GigaScience Referencing Guide
This is the Citationsy guide to GigaScience citations, reference lists, in-text citations, and bibliographies.
The complete, comprehensive guide shows you how easy citing any source can be. Referencing books, youtube videos, websites, articles, journals, podcasts, images, videos, or music in GigaScience.
How to do citations in GigaScience style?

How do you cite a book in the GigaScience referencing style?
Here’s an example book citation in GigaScience using placeholders:1. Last Name FN. Title. Edition. Editor Last Name EFN, editor. City: Publisher; 2000.
GigaScience citation:
1. Rowling JK. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. 1st ed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc; 1997.
How to reference a journal article in the GigaScience citation style?
How do you cite scientific papers in GigaScience format?
Here’s a GigaScience journal citation example using placeholders:
1. Author1 LastnameAF, Author3 LastnameAF. Title. Container [Internet]. Journal Name; 2000 [cited 2021Apr.22];Volume:pages Used. URL
1. Petit C, Sieffermann J. Testing consumer preferences for iced-coffee: Does the drinking environment have any influence?. [Internet]. Food Quality and Preference; 2007 [cited 2021Apr.22];18:161-72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2006.05.008
How to cite a website in a paper in GigaScience style?
Here’s an GigaScience example website reference:1. Author1 LastnameAF, Author2 LastnameAF. Title [Internet]. Publisher; 2000 [cited 2021Apr.22]. https://www.example.com
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/05/uselections20083
on The Guardian website:
1. Tran M. Barack Obama To Be America’s First Black President [Internet]. The Guardian; 2008 [cited 2021Apr.22]. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/05/uselections20083
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How to cite a YouTube video GigaScience
Here’s a GigaScience citation YouTube video example:1. ChannelName. Title [Internet]. YouTube. 2000 [cited 2021Apr.22]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXX
1. Pixar. Pizza Clip — Inside Out [Internet]. YouTube. 2015 [cited 2021Apr.22]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W6rntBADUQ
How to cite a podcast using GigaScience referencing style
It is becoming more and more common to reference podcasts in essays or other school work.Here’s how to reference a podcast it in GigaScience.
1. Lastname F. Title [Internet]. Publisher; 2000 [cited 2021Apr.22]. http://www.example.com
1. This American Life. 640: Five Women [Internet]. WBEZ Radio; 2018 [cited 2021Apr.22]. https://thisamericanlife.org/640/five-women
How to cite a piece of music or a song using GigaScience referencing style?
An example song citation in GigaScience.1. Lastname F. Song Title [Internet]. Album. 2000 [cited 2021Apr.22]. http://www.example.com
1. The Beatles. Here Comes the Sun [Internet]. Abbey Road. 1969 [cited 2021Apr.22]. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/here-comes-the-sun/401186200?i=401187150
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