How to format your references using the Human Gene Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Human Gene Therapy (HGT). 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

Kirchhoff F. Neuroscience. Questionable calcium. Science 2010;327:1212–1213.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gold JI, Shadlen MN. Representation of a perceptual decision in developing oculomotor commands. Nature 2000;404:390–394.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sanderson MJ, McMahon MM, Steel M. Terraces in phylogenetic tree space. Science 2011;333:448–450.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Smith AE, Slepchenko BM, Schaff JC, et al. Systems analysis of Ran transport. Science 2002;295:488–491.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bowers D, House A, Owens D. Getting Started in Health Research. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. 2011.

An edited book

Dörner R, Göbel S, Effelsberg W, et al. (eds). Serious Games: Foundations, Concepts and Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Akgün T, Gevrekci M. Accelerating Super-Resolution Reconstruction Using GPU by CUDA. In: Nagamalai D, Kumar A, Annamalai A (eds) Advances in Computational Science, Engineering and Information Technology: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Science, Engineering and Information Technology (CCSEIT-2013), KTO Karatay University, June 7-9, 2013, Konya,Turkey - Volume 1. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing. 2013; pp. 47–58.

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 Human Gene Therapy.

Blog post

Andrew E. National Geographic Changed Its Maps To Reflect The Effects Of Climate Change In The Arctic. IFLScience Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/national-geographic-announces-change-its-maps-reflect-climate-change/. 2015. Accessed October 30, 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

Government Accountability Office. NASA: Status of Plans for Achieving Key Outcomes and Addressing Major Management Challenges. GAO-02-184. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. November 27, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hollenbeck JL. The Challenge of U.S. West Coast Earthquake Response: Federal Urban Search and Rescue. Doctoral Dissertation. California State University, Long Beach. 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

Lipton E, Protess B, Lehren AW. Blue-Red Split: From Capitol To 18th Green. New York Times, September 9, 2017, p. 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	Human Gene Therapy
Abbreviation	Hum. Gene Ther.
ISSN (print)	1043-0342
ISSN (online)	1557-7422
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine