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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. Freger V. MEMBRANES. Outperforming nature’s membranes. Science. 2015;348:1317–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Que L Jr, Tolman WB. Biologically inspired oxidation catalysis. Nature. 2008;455:333–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Griffith S, Goldwater D, Jacobson JM. Robotics: self-replication from random parts. Nature. 2005;437:636.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Worden J, Noone D, Bowman K, Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer Science Team and Data contributors. Importance of rain evaporation and continental convection in the tropical water cycle. Nature. 2007;445:528–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Marteel-Parrish AE, Abraham MA. Green Chemistry and Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2013.

An edited book

1. Cornelius-White JHD, Motschnig-Pitrik R, Lux M, editors. Interdisciplinary Handbook of the Person-Centered Approach: Research and Theory. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Neidig J, Grosch T, Heim U. The Smart SemProM. In: Wahlster W, editor. SemProM: Foundations of Semantic Product Memories for the Internet of Things. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 73–89.

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. How Floating Turbines Could Harness The Awesome Power Of The Tides. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-floating-turbines-could-harness-awesome-power-tides/. 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. Information Security: Coordination of Federal Cyber Security Research and Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Sachdev NA. An Evaluation of the District of Columbia Summer Youth Employment Program. 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. Gustines GG. The Newest Superpower: Passing Through Network Walls. New York Times. 2016;:C5.

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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