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

Hoag H (2014) Drug delivery: brain food. Nature 510:S6-7

A journal article with 2 authors

Lattimer JM, Prakash M (2004) The physics of neutron stars. Science 304:536–542

A journal article with 3 authors

Green MT, Dawson JH, Gray HB (2004) Oxoiron(IV) in chloroperoxidase compound II is basic: implications for P450 chemistry. Science 304:1653–1656

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pearce EL, Walsh MC, Cejas PJ, et al (2009) Enhancing CD8 T-cell memory by modulating fatty acid metabolism. Nature 460:103–107

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Duckert GH (2010) Practical Enterprise Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lodaya K (ed) (2013) Logic and Its Applications: 5th Indian Conference, ICLA 2013, Chennai, India, January 10-12, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Hu Z, Shi Z (2008) Investigation of Animal Reservoir(s) of SARS-CoV. In: Lu Y, Essex M, Roberts B (eds) Emerging Infections in Asia. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 57–73

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 (2015) Where Does Venom Come From? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/paralyzing-spider-and-centipede-venom-originate-insulin-hormone-embargoed/. 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 (2007) Teacher Quality: Approaches, Implementation, and Evaluation of Key Federal Efforts. 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

Bratton KJ (2014) Modeling and Control of Heterogeneous Tumors Under Chemotherapy. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Greenhouse L (2005) Justices Explore U.S. Authority Over States on Assisted Suicide. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Lattimer and Prakash 2004; Hoag 2014).

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

Two authors: (Lattimer and Prakash 2004)
Three or more authors: (Pearce et al. 2009)

About the journal

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