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

Schofield AJ. Physics. Two for the price of one. Science 2007;315:945–946.

A journal article with 2 authors

Casali A, Struhl G. Reading the Hedgehog morphogen gradient by measuring the ratio of bound to unbound Patched protein. Nature 2004;431:76–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

Di Matteo T, Springel V, Hernquist L. Energy input from quasars regulates the growth and activity of black holes and their host galaxies. Nature 2005;433:604–607.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dulub O, Batzilln M, Solovev S, et al. Electron-induced oxygen desorption from the TiO2(011)-2x1 surface leads to self-organized vacancies. Science 2007;317:1052–1056.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McCrary SA. Mastering Corporate Finance Essentials. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2010.

An edited book

Tolk A, Jain LC (eds). Intelligence-Based Systems Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Manevitch LI, Gendelman OV. Continuous Systems. In: Gendelman OV (ed) Tractable Models of Solid Mechanics: Formulation, Analysis and Interpretation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. 2011; pp. 237–293.

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

Andrew E. Scientists Create 3D, High-Capacity Soft Batteries Using Trees. IFLScience Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-create-3d-high-capacity-soft-batteries-using-trees/. 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. Software Development: Effective Practices and Federal Challenges in Applying Agile Methods. GAO-12-681. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. July 27, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McCourt SB. A phenomenological study of anticipated housing, healthcare, and biopsychosocial needs of aging female baby boomers. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Phoenix. 2008.

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

Detrick B. Music Videos Come to Life. New York Times, September 1, 2016, p. D2.

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