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

Giles J. Think like a bee. Nature 2001; 410: 510–512.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bardgett RD, van der Putten WH. Belowground biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Nature 2014; 515: 505–511.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li W-W, Yu H-Q, Rittmann BE. Chemistry: Reuse water pollutants. Nature 2015; 528: 29–31.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gudiksen MS, Lauhon LJ, Wang J, Smith DC, Lieber CM. Growth of nanowire superlattice structures for nanoscale photonics and electronics. Nature 2002; 415: 617–620.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Corrigan PW, Roe D, Tsang HWH. Challenging the Stigma of Mental Illness. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2011.

An edited book

Hadjisavvas N, Komlósi S, Schaible S (eds.). Handbook of Generalized Convexity and Generalized Monotonicity. Springer: New York, NY, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Iida K. Nanocomposite RE-Ba-Cu-O Bulk Superconductors. In: Mele P, Endo T, Arisawa S, Li C, Tsuchiya T (eds). Oxide Thin Films, Multilayers, and Nanocomposites. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015, pp 85–95.

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. FDA Grants Approval for New Robotic Surgical Aid. IFLScience. 2014.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/fda-grants-approval-new-robotic-surgical-aid/ (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 Shuttle: Status of NASA’s Efforts to Address Workforce Issues Related to the Space Shuttle’s Retirement. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Robert LA. The impact of community-based mentoring on African American boys using an attribution-retraining curriculum. 2015.

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

Murphy MJO, Thee-Brenan M. Spot on Ballot Is No Cure-All, Women Say in Poll. New York Times. 2016; : 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	Gene Therapy
Abbreviation	Gene Ther.
ISSN (print)	0969-7128
ISSN (online)	1476-5462
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine