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

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

Archibald JM. Genomics. Green evolution, green revolution. Science 2009;324:191–192.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grande C, Patel NH. Nodal signalling is involved in left-right asymmetry in snails. Nature 2009;457:1007–1011.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huang L, Treisman A, Pashler H. Characterizing the limits of human visual awareness. Science 2007;317:823–825.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Andersson RL, Ström V, Gedde UW, et al. Micromechanics of ultra-toughened electrospun PMMA/PEO fibres as revealed by in-situ tensile testing in an electron microscope. Sci Rep 2014;4:6335.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Calvello AA. Environmental Alpha. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009.

An edited book

Kosowski A, Walukiewicz I (eds). Fundamentals of Computation Theory: 20th International Symposium, FCT 2015, Gdańsk, Poland, August 17-19, 2015, Proceedings. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Kapoor S, Dhama K. Epidemiology of Influenza Viruses. In: Dhama K (ed) Insight into Influenza Viruses of Animals and Humans. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 2014; pp. 65–86.

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 Methods.

Blog post

Taub B. A Spider Has Been Seen Eating A Crayfish For The First Time. IFLScience.

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. Examination of the Social Security Administration’s Systems Modernization Plan. HRD-82-83. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. May 28, 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McLeod DJ. From fear to freedom: Overcoming obstacles and living truthfully in a role. Doctoral Dissertation. California State University, Long Beach. 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

Kishkovsky S. At a Russian Hospital, Art Inspires Children. New York Times, January 7, 2006, p. B9.

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 Methods
Abbreviation	Hum. Gene Ther. Methods
ISSN (print)	1946-6536
ISSN (online)	1946-6544
Scope	Genetics Molecular Medicine Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Genetics(clinical) Pharmacology