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]

Segalman RA. Materials science. Directing self-assembly toward perfection. Science 2008; 321(5891):919–20.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Helliker BR, Richter SL. Subtropical to boreal convergence of tree-leaf temperatures. Nature 2008; 454(7203):511–14.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lee H, Lee BP, Messersmith PB. A reversible wet/dry adhesive inspired by mussels and geckos. Nature 2007; 448(7151):338–41.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Yu CY, Liu XJ, Lu J, et al. First-principles prediction and experimental verification of glass-forming ability in Zr-Cu binary metallic glasses. Sci Rep 2013; 3:2124.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Knudsen S. Guide to Analysis of DNA Microarray Data,. 2005[Online] John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Seeberg ML, Goździak EM, editors. Contested Childhoods: Growing up in Migrancy: Migration, Governance, Identities,. 2016[Online] Springer International Publishing: Cham 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lim JH. Intestinal Obstruction. In: Maconi G, Porro GB, Eds. Ultrasound of the Gastrointestinal Tract Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg 2007; pp. 27–34.

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]

Andrew D. It’s All In The Rotation: Exploring Planets Orbiting Distant Stars. IFLScience 2016[Online] IFLScience 2016 [cited 2018]. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/its-all-in-the-rotation-exploring-planets-orbiting-distant-stars/.

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. Learning Disabilities: The Link to Delinquency Should Be Determined, but Schools Should Do More Now. 1977[Online] U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Edmonds JL. Mobility and population change in northeast Mississippi: An object-based seriation of projectile points as a relative paleodemographic indicator. 2009[Online] [Doctoral dissertation] Mississippi State University: Mississippi State, MS 2009.

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]

Marchese J. ‘I Just Love What I’m Doing.’ New York Times 2016 Dec. 14[Online] 2016 Dec. 14 AR20.

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