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. Smith O. Development. Nota bene: a SAC of crumbs and stardust. Science. 2001;294:2498.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Contreras JL, Reichman JH. DATA ACCESS. Sharing by design: Data and decentralized commons. Science. 2015;350:1312–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Baum P, Yang D-S, Zewail AH. 4D visualization of transitional structures in phase transformations by electron diffraction. Science. 2007;318:788–92.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Grossman SR, Deato ME, Brignone C, Chan HM, Kung AL, Tagami H, et al. Polyubiquitination of p53 by a ubiquitin ligase activity of p300. Science. 2003;300:342–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Dubuisson S. Tracking with Particle Filter for High-Dimensional Observation and State Spaces. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

1. Noubir G, Raynal M, editors. Networked Systems: Second International Conference, NETYS 2014, Marrakech, Morocco, May 15-17, 2014. Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sakarovitch J. Finite Automata and the Writing of Numbers. In: Harju T, Karhumäki J, Lepistö A, editors. Developments in Language Theory: 11th International Conference, DLT 2007, Turku, Finland, July 3-6, 2007 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 29–30.

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. Luntz S. Cosmonaut Rebuffs Sexist Questions [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/cosmonaut-rebuffs-sexist-questions/

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. Review of the Battlefield Exploitation and Target Acquisition System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980 Mar. Report No.: LCD-80-38.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Swenson MD. Second generation Latinos and the perceived barriers to college enrollment [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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. Branch J. World Order, in a Nutshell. New York Times. 2016 Aug 12;SP13.

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

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