Genome Biology is primarily web-based, but some articles were reproduced in full in a printed issue, and others were reproduced in the print issue in summary form, or listed. The final print issue of Genome Biology was Volume 6 Issue 12 (December 2005); now the journal is published only online. It continues to be published as a monthly issue online (with continuous publication of all articles as soon as they become available) and laid-out PDF versions of all articles continue to be available for downloading from the website. If you have previously been a subscriber to the print version and have questions about converting to an online subscription, please contact our customer services team . We have a single system for referring to articles, whether they appeared in print or only online, that allows users of traditional citation formats to refer to articles just as easily as those using URLs.
Each article has a unique URL that denotes the year of publication, volume and issue numbers, and its article
number within the issue - for example HTTP://GENOMEBIOLOGY.COM/2003/4/1/202. This URL can be translated into a traditional citation format as follows: Genome Biology 2003, 4:202.
For articles published in volume 3 or earlier, each article has a unique URL that denotes the year of publication, volume and issue numbers, and its article number within a section of the journal - for example HTTP://GENOMEBIOLOGY.COM/2002/3/2/REVIEWS/0002. This can be translated into a traditional citation format as follows: Genome Biology 2002, 3(2):reviews0002; if full pages numbers are required they are given in the form reviews0002.1-0002.8
Within the printed issue, articles are distributed in sections that mirror those of the website, and the article numbers within a section are not necessarily sequential (if additional intervening article numbers have been used for articles that are published only online, for example). Some articles are incomplete in print.
