How to format your references using the Genetic Vaccines and Therapy citation style

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

1. Parkins WE. Energy. Fusion power: will it ever come? Science. 2006;311:1380.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Czyzewski BK, Wang D-N. Identification and characterization of a bacterial hydrosulphide ion channel. Nature. 2012;483:494–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Rosin-Arbesfeld R, Townsley F, Bienz M. The APC tumour suppressor has a nuclear export function. Nature. 2000;406:1009–12.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. De Schrijver A, Verheyen K, Mertens J, Staelens J, Wuyts K, Muys B. Nitrogen saturation and net ecosystem production. Nature. 2008;451:E1; discussion E3-4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Padgett S. Profiling the Fraudster. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

1. Argamon S, Burns K, Dubnov S, editors. The Structure of Style: Algorithmic Approaches to Understanding Manner and Meaning. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Rummler GA, Ramias AJ. A Framework for Defining and Designing the Structure of Work. In: Brocke JV, Rosemann M, editors. Handbook on Business Process Management 1: Introduction, Methods, and Information Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 83–106.

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 Genetic Vaccines and Therapy.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Wasp Masters Turn Spiders Into Web-Building Zombie Slaves. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wasp-masters-turn-spiders-web-building-zombie-slaves/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. ADP Procurement: Better Capacity Planning Needed at Agriculture’s National Finance Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Venegas Carro GI. The Slow Movements of Anton Bruckner’s Symphonies: Dialogical Perspectives. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona; 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

1. Pilon M. Slugger’s Penalty Includes a Walk Through History. New York Times. 2012;:B11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Genetic Vaccines and Therapy
ISSN (print)	1479-0556
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