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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Human Gene Therapy Clinical Development. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Radick G. HISTORY OF SCIENCE. Beyond the “Mendel-Fisher controversy.” Science 2015;350:159–160.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tallis H, Lubchenco J. Working together: A call for inclusive conservation. Nature 2014;515:27–28.

A journal article with 3 authors

Szemenyei H, Hannon M, Long JA. TOPLESS mediates auxin-dependent transcriptional repression during Arabidopsis embryogenesis. Science 2008;319:1384–1386.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Keeling MJ, Woolhouse ME, Shaw DJ, et al. Dynamics of the 2001 UK foot and mouth epidemic: stochastic dispersal in a heterogeneous landscape. Science 2001;294:813–817.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Best P. Implementing Value at Risk. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2005.

An edited book

Luan S (ed). Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Delang CO, Li WM. Factors Contributing to Differences in Forest Recovery Rates. In: Li WM (ed) Ecological Succession on Fallowed Shifting Cultivation Fields: A Review of the Literature. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. 2013; pp. 91–122.

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 Clinical Development.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. New Horizons Performs Latest Maneuver On Journey To Distant Solar System Object. IFLScience Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-horizons-performs-latest-maneuver-on-journey-to-distant-solar-system-object/. 2017. 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. Passenger Rail Security: Consistent Incident Reporting and Analysis Needed to Achieve Program Objectives. GAO-13-20. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. December 19, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Luna M. A Case Study of the Influence of Multipurpose Spaces on Campus Life at an Institution of Art and Design. 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

Cooper M. Lincoln Center Festival Director to Step Down. New York Times, June 28, 2017, p. C3.

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 Clinical Development
Abbreviation	Hum. Gene Ther. Clin. Dev.
ISSN (print)	2324-8637
ISSN (online)	2324-8645
Scope	Genetics(clinical)