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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Richmond B. Neuroscience. Information coding. Science 2001; 294(5551):2493–94.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Nadeau RM, Guilhem A. Nonvolcanic tremor evolution and the San Simeon and Parkfield, California, earthquakes. Science 2009; 325(5937):191–93.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Irie M, Kobatake S, Horichi M. Reversible surface morphology changes of a photochromic diarylethene single crystal by photoirradiation. Science 2001; 291(5509):1769–72.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Stockem A, Fiuza F, Bret A, et al. Exploring the nature of collisionless shocks under laboratory conditions. Sci Rep 2014; 4:3934.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Franssen J-M, Vila Real P. Fire Design of Steel Structures,. 2016[Online] Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Huck WTS, editor. Nanoscale Assembly: Chemical Techniques,. 2005[Online] Springer US: Boston, MA 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rahman SS ur, Schallehn E, Saake G. ECOS: Evolutionary Column-Oriented Storage. In: Fernandes AAA, Gray AJG, Belhajjame K, Eds. Advances in Databases: 28th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 28, Manchester, UK, July 12-14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg 2011; pp. 18–32.

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]

Andrews R. Does This Shape Look More “Bouba” Or “Kiki” To You? IFLScience 2017[Online] IFLScience 2017 [cited 2018]. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/shape-look-bouba-kiki/.

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. Trans-Alaska Pipeline: Actions to Improve Safety Are Under Way. 1995[Online] U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gowetski DB. Manipulation of DNA topology using an artificial DNA-looping protein. 2012[Online] [Doctoral dissertation] University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, MD 2012.

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]

Oestreich JR. Bearing Witness to a Massacre. New York Times 2017 Sep. 28[Online] 2017 Sep. 28 C4.

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