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 (EJHG). 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

Rolston S. Quantum physics: Getting the measure of entanglement. Nature 2015; 528: 48–49.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miroshnichenko AE, Kivshar YS. Applied physics. Polarization traffic control for surface plasmons. Science 2013; 340: 283–284.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rajca A, Wongsriratanakul J, Rajca S. Magnetic ordering in an organic polymer. Science 2001; 294: 1503–1505.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kosynkin DV et al. Longitudinal unzipping of carbon nanotubes to form graphene nanoribbons. Nature 2009; 458: 872–876.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahlemeyer-Stubbe A, Coleman S. A Practical Guide to Data Mining for Business and Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

Eisfeld B (ed.). Differential Reynolds Stress Modeling for Separating Flows in Industrial Aerodynamics. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Goetze C. Bringing Claude Lévi-Strauss and Pierre Bourdieu Together for a Post-structuralist Methodology to Analyse Myths. In: Bliesemann de Guevara B (ed). Myth and Narrative in International Politics: Interpretive Approaches to the Study of IR. Palgrave Macmillan UK: London, 2016, pp 87–105.

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. Lopsided Star Explosion Helps Unravel Mystery Of Supernova. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/space/lopsided-star-explosion-helps-unravel-mystery-supernova/ (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. Space Acquisitions: DOD Needs More Guidance on Decisions to Store Satellites. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Risley L. Exploring Congruency between John A. Henschke’s Practice and Scholarship. 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

Kelly M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; CLINTON IS LEERY OF PREMATURE JOY. New York Times. 1992; : A1.

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)