How to format your references using the Human Genetics citation style

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

Kouwenhoven L (2000) One photon seen by one electron. Nature 403:374–375

A journal article with 2 authors

Crandall KA, Buhay JE (2004) Evolution. Genomic databases and the tree of life. Science 306:1144–1145

A journal article with 3 authors

Barry L, Craig GC, Thuburn J (2002) Poleward heat transport by the atmospheric heat engine. Nature 415:774–777

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Maccarone TJ, Kundu A, Zepf SE, Rhode KL (2007) A black hole in a globular cluster. Nature 445:183–185

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weiss A (2009) Getting Started in Consulting. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Papastephanou M (ed) (2016) Cosmopolitanism: Educational, Philosophical and Historical Perspectives. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Harrod RP, Martin DL (2014) Beyond the Southwest: Is There a Relationship Between Climate and Violence? In: Martin DL (ed) Bioarchaeology of Climate Change and Violence: Ethical Considerations. Springer, New York, NY, pp 59–67

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 Genetics.

Blog post

Luntz S (2016) Textbooks Have Been Getting Fern Sex Wrong, Paper Claims. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/textbooks-have-been-getting-fern-sex-wrong-paper-claims/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2002) Federal Student Aid: Progress in Integrating Pell Grant and Direct Loan Systems and Processes, but Critical Work Remains. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kranz TE (2017) Body, Land, and Memory: Counter-Narratives in the Poetry of Minnie Bruce Pratt, Brenda Marie Osbey, and Natasha Trethewey. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Walsh MW (2016) New Puerto Rico Debt Relief Law Stirs Colonial Resentments. New York Times B1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kouwenhoven 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kouwenhoven 2000; Crandall and Buhay 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Crandall and Buhay 2004)
Three or more authors: (Maccarone et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Human Genetics
Abbreviation	Hum. Genet.
ISSN (print)	0340-6717
ISSN (online)	1432-1203
Scope	Genetics Genetics(clinical)