How to format your references using the European Journal of Human Genetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Human Genetics. 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	Download the output style file
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

Vanmaekelbergh D. Materials science: Superlattice substitution. Nature 2015; 524: 418–419.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kondo S, Miura T. Reaction-diffusion model as a framework for understanding biological pattern formation. Science 2010; 329: 1616–1620.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hwang J, Timusk T, Gu GD. High-transition-temperature superconductivity in the absence of the magnetic-resonance mode. Nature 2004; 427: 714–717.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gray JM et al. Oxygen sensation and social feeding mediated by a C. elegans guanylate cyclase homologue. Nature 2004; 430: 317–322.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Srivastava SP. Developments in Lubricant Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, New Jersey, 2014.

An edited book

Hilbi H (ed.). Molecular Mechanisms in Legionella Pathogenesis. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Gautschi H, Gautschi D. What Contexts Could Be? In: Gautschi D (ed). Technological Innovation and Economic Transformation: A Method for Contextual Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan US: New York, NY, 2016, pp 121–155.

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 European Journal of Human Genetics.

Blog post

Andrew E. Scientists Create Most Powerful Acoustic Tractor Beam To Date. IFLScience. 2014.https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-create-most-powerful-acoustic-tractor-beam-date/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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

Government Accountability Office. Review of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare’s Actions To Carry Out the Provisions of the National Cooley’s Anemia Control Act. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chan BK. Hyperboloid-Parameterized Description of Diffusive Superconducting-Magnetic Hybrid Systems. 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

Davidson A. Who Is Betting On Obamacare? New York Times. 2013; : MM36.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	European Journal of Human Genetics
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Hum. Genet.
ISSN (print)	1018-4813
ISSN (online)	1476-5438
Scope	Genetics Genetics(clinical)