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

Bohannon J. The Gonzo Scientist. Do scientists like green porno? Science 2009;325:1620.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burdyga T, Wray S. Action potential refractory period in ureter smooth muscle is set by Ca sparks and BK channels. Nature 2005;436:559–562.

A journal article with 3 authors

Naeem S, Duffy JE, Zavaleta E. The functions of biological diversity in an age of extinction. Science 2012;336:1401–1406.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Honda K, Ohba Y, Yanai H, et al. Spatiotemporal regulation of MyD88-IRF-7 signalling for robust type-I interferon induction. Nature 2005;434:1035–1040.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rizzi TE, Valenciano A, Bowles M, et al. Atlas of Canine and Feline Urinalysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2017.

An edited book

Nickerson CA, Pellis NR, Ott CM (eds). Effect of Spaceflight and Spaceflight Analogue Culture on Human and Microbial Cells: Novel Insights into Disease Mechanisms. 1st ed. 2016. New York, NY: Springer. 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Das A. Differentiable Manifolds with Connections. In: Das A (ed) Tensors: The Mathematics of Relativity Theory and Continuum Mechanics. New York, NY: Springer. 2007; pp. 92–120.

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

Andrews R. Conservationist To Fly Thousands Of Kilometers Alongside Migrating Swans On Epic Journey. IFLScience Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/daring-conservationist-fly-7000-kilometers-alongside-migrating-swans-epic-journey/. 2016. 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. IRS Systems Security and Funding: Additional Information on Employee Browsing and Tax Systems Modernization. AIMD/GGD-97-140R. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. June 23, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Selph CS. Origins of Music Programs in Liberal Arts Institutions: The Story of Three Florida Catholic Universities. Doctoral Dissertation. University of South Florida. 2015.

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

Bogle JC. Putting Clients Second. New York Times, February 9, 2017, p. A27.

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