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

Martin K. Vernon B. Mountcastle (1918-2015). Nature 2015;518:304.

A journal article with 2 authors

Evans JA, Foster JG. Metaknowledge. Science 2011;331:721–725.

A journal article with 3 authors

Finn CA, Sisson TW, Deszcz-Pan M. Aerogeophysical measurements of collapse-prone hydrothermally altered zones at Mount Rainier volcano. Nature 2001;409:600–603.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhu Y, Wang F, Liu L, et al. Cheap glass fiber mats as a matrix of gel polymer electrolytes for lithium ion batteries. Sci Rep 2013;3:3187.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Martin-Flatin J-P. Web-Based Management of IP Networks and Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2002.

An edited book

Mitchell DA, Berovič M, Krieger N (eds). Solid-State Fermentation Bioreactors: Fundamentals of Design and Operation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Skyrms B. Discovering “Weight, or the Value of Knowledge.” In: Galavotti MC (ed) Cambridge and Vienna: Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. 2006; pp. 55–65.

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

Andrew E. Watch As Scientists Attempt To Preserve A Blue Whale Heart. IFLScience Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-scientists-explore-blue-whale-heart/. 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. Railroad Safety: Human Factor Accidents and Issues Affecting Engineer Work Schedules. RCED-93-160BR. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. July 1, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Black DD. Franz Liszt’s “Via Crucis”: A summation of the composer’s styles and beliefs. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Arizona. 2014.

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. Paterno at the End: Far From the Coach We Thought We Knew. New York Times, November 11, 2011, p. B18.

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)