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

Tracey KJ. The inflammatory reflex. Nature 2002; 420: 853–859.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boyet M, Carlson RW. 142Nd evidence for early (>4.53 Ga) global differentiation of the silicate Earth. Science 2005; 309: 576–581.

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo J, Zhu J, Ye H. Comment on ‘Tubular graphite cones’. Science 2004; 303: 766; author reply 766.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Vinces MD, Legendre M, Caldara M, Hagihara M, Verstrepen KJ. Unstable tandem repeats in promoters confer transcriptional evolvability. Science 2009; 324: 1213–1216.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Connor K, Aardema F, Pélissier M-C. Beyond Reasonable Doubt. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

Laird NM. The Fundamentals of Modern Statistical Genetics. Springer: New York, NY, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Boţ RI, Grad S-M, Wanka G. Almost Convex Functions: Conjugacy and Duality. In: Luc DT, Rubinov AM (eds). Generalized Convexity and Related Topics. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006, pp 101–114.

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

Andrew E. The Mystery Of Breast Cancer. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mystery-breast-cancer/ (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. The First Step Toward Reform. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Adams TA. Improving Scores on Computerized Reading Assessments: The Effects of Colored Overlay Use. 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

Koblin J, Maheshwari S. CBS Woos Sponsors With Energetic Pitch By a Surging Colbert. New York Times. 2017; : B6.

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