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. Bains W. Comment on “Orthographic processing in baboons (Papio papio).” Science. 2012;337:1173; author reply 1173.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Epshtein V, Nudler E. Cooperation between RNA polymerase molecules in transcription elongation. Science. 2003;300:801–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Travis DJ, Carleton AM, Lauritsen RG. Contrails reduce daily temperature range. Nature. 2002;418:601.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Royer JR, Evans DJ, Oyarte L, Guo Q, Kapit E, Möbius ME, et al. High-speed tracking of rupture and clustering in freely falling granular streams. Nature. 2009;459:1110–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Saleh JH, Castet J-F. Spacecraft Reliability and Multi-State Failures. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

1. Lewis MA, Dietel M, Scriba PC, Raff WK, editors. Biology und Epidemiology of Hormone Replacement Therapy: Discussions on Post-Menopausal Health. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Voss P. Essentials of General Intelligence: The Direct Path to Artificial General Intelligence. In: Goertzel B, Pennachin C, editors. Artificial General Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 131–57.

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. Could You Be Related To Genghis Khan? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/could-you-be-related-genghis-khan/

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. Intellectual Property: Patent Office Should Define Quality, Reassess Incentives, and Improve Clarity. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Jun. Report No.: GAO-16-490.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Collins K. Learning to live in the layers: Traveling soul’s way through poetry [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2014.

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. Pilon M. Britain Adds Olympian. New York Times. 2012 Jun 12;B10.

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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