How to format your references using the Gene Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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	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

Davis AM. Astronomy. Early solar system chronology. Science 2009; 325: 951–952.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rogers WB, Manoharan VN. DNA nanotechnology. Programming colloidal phase transitions with DNA strand displacement. Science 2015; 347: 639–642.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gestwicki JE, Crabtree GR, Graef IA. Harnessing chaperones to generate small-molecule inhibitors of amyloid beta aggregation. Science 2004; 306: 865–869.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chu L, Schmidt H, Pu J, Wang S, Ozyilmaz B, Takenobu T et al. Charge transport in ion-gated mono-, bi-, and trilayer MoS2 field effect transistors. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 7293.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ancheyta J. Deactivation of Heavy Oil Hydroprocessing Catalysts. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, New Jersey, 2016.

An edited book

Naccache D (ed.). Cryptography and Security: From Theory to Applications: Essays Dedicated to Jean-Jacques Quisquater on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang H, Liu Z, Zuo M. Experimental Study on Sand Intercepting Process of Arbor Vegetation in Interlaced Zone of Desert and Oasis in Region of Arakan. In: Deng W (ed). Future Control and Automation: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Future Control and Automation (ICFCA 2012) - Volume 1. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012, pp 27–35.

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 Gene Therapy.

Blog post

Taub B. Researchers And Politicians Slam The War On Drugs As A Failure. IFLScience. 2016.

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. Advanced Imaging Technology: TSA Needs Additional Information before Procuring Next-Generation Systems. 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

Ismail A-R. Assessing the relationship between the Internet, radio frequency identifier (RFID), and information technology (IT) flexibility: A correlational study and findings. 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

Barron J. A Hospital, Once Afloat, Is Buoyant With Over a Century of Memories. New York Times. 2017; : A21.

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	Gene Therapy
Abbreviation	Gene Ther.
ISSN (print)	0969-7128
ISSN (online)	1476-5462
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine