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

Berglund J (2011) Orthopaedics: Structural support. Nature 480:S56-7

A journal article with 2 authors

Robert F, Chaussidon M (2006) A palaeotemperature curve for the Precambrian oceans based on silicon isotopes in cherts. Nature 443:969–972

A journal article with 3 authors

Hibbett DS, Gilbert LB, Donoghue MJ (2000) Evolutionary instability of ectomycorrhizal symbioses in basidiomycetes. Nature 407:506–508

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Groppe J, Greenwald J, Wiater E, et al (2002) Structural basis of BMP signalling inhibition by the cystine knot protein Noggin. Nature 420:636–642

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dubin D (2005) Numerical and Analytical Methods for Scientists and Engineers, Using Mathematica. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Rutherford A, Capdevila R, Undurti V, Palmary I (eds) (2011) Handbook of International Feminisms: Perspectives on Psychology, Women, Culture, and Rights, 1st edn. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Eguchi K, Ochiai N (2014) Movement Disorder and Rehabilitation. In: Sankai Y, Suzuki K, Hasegawa Y (eds) Cybernics: Fusion of human, machine and information systems. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 89–98

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

Andrew E (2014) Supernova Core Imaged For the First Time. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/supernova-core-imaged-first-time/. 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 (1980) Applicability of Service Contract Act to Service Employees of ADP and High-Technology Companies. 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

Prendergast CA (2017) Nontraditional online students perceptions on student success conditions. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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 (2007) Party Time Where the Soviet Army Strutted. New York Times TR3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Berglund 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Robert and Chaussidon 2006; Berglund 2011).

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

Two authors: (Robert and Chaussidon 2006)
Three or more authors: (Groppe et al. 2002)

About the journal

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