How to format your references using the Current Gene Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Gene Therapy. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

Murray-Rust P. Chemistry for everyone. Nature 2008; 451(7179):648–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Herzog MH, Fahle M. Effects of grouping in contextual modulation. Nature 2002; 415(6870):433–36.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Henikoff S, Ahmad K, Malik HS. The centromere paradox: stable inheritance with rapidly evolving DNA. Science 2001; 293(5532):1098–102.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Warne T, Serrano-Vega MJ, Baker JG, et al. Structure of a beta1-adrenergic G-protein-coupled receptor. Nature 2008; 454(7203):486–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Darbyshire P, Hampton D. Hedge Fund Modelling and Analysis Using MATLAB ®,. 2014[Online] John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Aubin J-P. Viability Theory: New Directions,. 2011[Online] Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Veen M van der, Osseweijer P. IPRs and the Transfer of Technologies that Combat Climate Change: The Untapped Potential of Licensing. In: Cahoy DR, Colburn JE, Eds. Law and the Transition to Business Sustainability Springer International Publishing: Cham 2014; pp. 85–102.

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 Current Gene Therapy.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. France To Ban Breeding Of Captive Orcas And Dolphins. IFLScience 2017[Online] IFLScience 2017 [cited 2018]. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/france-to-ban-breeding-of-captive-orcas-and-dolphins/.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. USDA Information Management: Extensive Improvements Needed in Managing Information Technology Investments. 1997[Online] U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wang E. Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility Investigation of the Coyote Mountain Shear Zone. 2017[Online] [Doctoral dissertation] University of Louisiana: Lafayette, LA 2017.

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

[1]

Vecsey G. Stars as Teammates: Not a New Concept. New York Times 2010 Jul. 10[Online] 2010 Jul. 10 D2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Current Gene Therapy
Abbreviation	Curr. Gene Ther.
ISSN (print)	1566-5232
ISSN (online)	1875-5631
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine Genetics(clinical) Drug Discovery