How to format your references using the Human Heredity citation style

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

Baker M. Biorepositories: Building better biobanks. Nature. 2012 Jun;486(7401):141–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ferrara N, Kerbel RS. Angiogenesis as a therapeutic target. Nature. 2005 Dec;438(7070):967–74.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shalm LK, Adamson RBA, Steinberg AM. Squeezing and over-squeezing of triphotons. Nature. 2009 Jan;457(7225):67–70.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Svenningsson P, Tzavara ET, Carruthers R, Rachleff I, Wattler S, Nehls M, et al. Diverse psychotomimetics act through a common signaling pathway. Science. 2003 Nov;302(5649):1412–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dunnivant FM, Anders E. A Basic Introduction to Pollutant Fate and Transport. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Grimaud G, Standaert F-X, editors. Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications: 8th IFIP WG 8.8/11.2 International Conference, CARDIS 2008, London, UK, September 8-11, 2008. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Hall OP, Mooney JG. Hybrid Learning Systems: Meeting the Challenges of Graduate Management Education. In: Tsang P, Cheung SKS, Lee VSK, Huang R, editors. Hybrid Learning: Third International Conference, ICHL 2010, Beijing, China, August 16-18, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010; pp 35–48.

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 Heredity.

Blog post

Andrew E. Scientists Develop A Way To Visualise The Brain In Real-Time [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Mar [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-develop-way-visualise-brain-real-time/

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. Information Technology: VA and DOD Continue to Expand Sharing of Medical Information, but Still Lack Comprehensive Electronic Medical Records. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tourijigian L. Fiscal Changes at Dunbar Elementary. 2015

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

Wagner J. Venezuelan Ballplayers Love Homeland, at a Safe Distance. New York Times. 2017 Mar;SP1.

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 Heredity
Abbreviation	Hum. Hered.
ISSN (print)	0001-5652
ISSN (online)	1423-0062
Scope	Genetics Genetics(clinical)