How to format your references using the Human Genomics citation style

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

1. Trainor L. Science & music: the neural roots of music. Nature. 2008;453:598–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Patrinos A, Bamzai A. Policy needs robust climate science. Nature. 2005;438:285.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Jaramillo C, Rueda MJ, Mora G. Cenozoic plant diversity in the neotropics. Science. 2006;311:1893–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Erwin SC, Zu L, Haftel MI, Efros AL, Kennedy TA, Norris DJ. Doping semiconductor nanocrystals. Nature. 2005;436:91–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hermans J, Lentz B. Equilibria and Kinetics of Biological Macromolecules. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Schilders WHA, Vorst HA van der, Rommes J, editors. Model Order Reduction: Theory, Research Aspects and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Cartland J, Ruch-Ross HS. The Researcher’s Mark: What Researchers Bring to Communities, and What May or May Not be Left Behind When Their Work is Done. In: Fritz JM, Rhéaume J, editors. Community Intervention: Clinical Sociology Perspectives. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 45–56.

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 Genomics.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Hurricane Forecast Accuracy Is Improving, But Don’t Overly Focus On The Skinny Black Line [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/hurricane-forecast-accuracy-improving-don-t-overly-focus-skinny-black-line/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Railroad Regulation: Competitive Access and Its Effects on Selected Railroads and Shippers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Jun. Report No.: RCED-87-109.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Tan-atichat TP. Behavior of VNC in high-latency environments and techniques for improvement [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 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

1. Grynbaum MM. Next Act for an Editor Silver of Tongue (and Hair). New York Times. 2017 Sep 7;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Genomics
Abbreviation	Hum. Genomics
ISSN (online)	1479-7364
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine Drug Discovery