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. Smaglik P. Grappling for grants. Nature. 2002;419:3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Wennerås C, Wold A. A chair of one’s own. Nature. 2000;408:647.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Brunkard JO, Runkel AM, Zambryski PC. Evolution. Comment on “A promiscuous intermediate underlies the evolution of LEAFY DNA binding specificity.” Science. 2015;347:621.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hyde WT, Crowley TJ, Baum SK, Peltier WR. Neoproterozoic “snowball Earth” simulations with a coupled climate/ice-sheet model. Nature. 2000;405:425–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Thiessen H. Measuring the Real World. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,; 1996.

An edited book

1. Braga C, Ölveczky PC, editors. Formal Aspects of Component Software: 12th International Conference, FACS 2015, Niterói, Brazil, October 14-16, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Rehm G, Uszkoreit H. About META-NET. In: Rehm G, Uszkoreit H, editors. The English Language in the Digital Age. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 33–33.

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. Evans K. Study Finds No Proof Fitness Trackers Help With Weight Loss. IFLScience. 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/study-finds-no-proof-fitness-trackers-help-with-weight-loss/. 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. Bilingual Education: Research and Evaluation Contracts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Detweiler KR. Exploring Discursive Interaction, Habitus, and Dynamic Co-emergence Among an Agency Leader and Congressional Oversight Committee: A Case Study of Languaging in Practice. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 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

1. Feeney K. Hidden Treasures Of the Food Industry. New York Times. 2007;:14NJ13.

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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