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 (HUM). 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

Webb SC. The Earth’s “hum” is driven by ocean waves over the continental shelves. Nature 2007;445(7129):754–756.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vokrouhlicky D, Farinella P. Efficient delivery of meteorites to the Earth from a wide range of asteroid parent bodies. Nature 2000;407(6804):606–608.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green HW 2nd, Chen W-P, Brudzinski MR. Seismic evidence of negligible water carried below 400-km depth in subducting lithosphere. Nature 2010;467(7317):828–831.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ji Y, Zhang B, Van SF, et al. Identification of critical staphylococcal genes using conditional phenotypes generated by antisense RNA. Science 2001;293(5538):2266–2269.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reiman J. As Free and as Just as Possible. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK; 2012.

An edited book

Husemöller D. Basic Bundle Theory and K-Cohomology Invariants: With Contributions by Siegfried Echterhoff, Stefan Fredenhagen and Bernhard Krötz. (Joachim M, Jurčo B, Schottenloher M. eds). Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Guo X, Lin H-H, Yatake K, et al. An UPPAAL Framework for Model Checking Automotive Systems with FlexRay Protocol. In: Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems: Second International Workshop, FTSCS 2013, Queenstown, New Zealand, October 29--30, 2013. Revised Selected Papers. (Artho C, Ölveczky PC. eds). Communications in Computer and Information Science Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2014; pp. 36–53.

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. Science Or Snake Oil: Can A Detox Actually Cleanse Your Liver? IFLScience; 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/science-or-snake-oil-can-detox-actually-cleanse-your-liver/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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 Procurement: Status of Efforts to Improve Oversight. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Spratley AM. Connecting Law and Creativity: The Role of Lawyers in Supporting Creative and Innovative Economic Development. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University: Washington, DC; 2010.

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

Vecsey G. The Daddy of All Rivals: Martinez Is Back. New York Times 2009;B11.

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