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. Jonietz E. Designing smarter cancer prevention trials. Nature. 2011;471:S20-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jin H-J, Kaplan DL. Mechanism of silk processing in insects and spiders. Nature. 2003;424:1057–61.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Coyte KZ, Schluter J, Foster KR. The ecology of the microbiome: Networks, competition, and stability. Science. 2015;350:663–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. You L-R, Lin F-J, Lee CT, DeMayo FJ, Tsai M-J, Tsai SY. Suppression of Notch signalling by the COUP-TFII transcription factor regulates vein identity. Nature. 2005;435:98–104.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hyatt TK, Hopkins BR. The Law of Tax-Exempt Healthcare Organizations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Ärlestig H, Day C, Johansson O, editors. A Decade of Research on School Principals: Cases from 24 Countries. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sulaiman H, Wickramasinghe N. Assimilation of Healthcare Information Systems (HIS): An Analysis and Critique. In: Wickramasinghe N, Bali R, Suomi R, Kirn S, editors. Critical Issues for the Development of Sustainable E-health Solutions. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2012. p. 49–70.

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. Children with Good Memories are Better Liars, Research Suggests. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/children-good-memories-are-better-liars-research-suggests/. 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. Software Tools and Techniques. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Hester ET. Impact of geomorphic structures on hyporheic exchange, temperature, and ecological processes in streams. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina; 2008.

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. Kelly K. Another Goldman Executive Joins Administration. New York Times. 2017;:A11.

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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