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

Brody H. Cancer. Nature. 2014 May;509(7502):S49.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ahima RS, Lazar MA. Physiology. The health risk of obesity--better metrics imperative. Science. 2013 Aug;341(6148):856–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schweinfest R, Paxton AT, Finnis MW. Bismuth embrittlement of copper is an atomic size effect. Nature. 2004 Dec;432(7020):1008–11.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Liu T, DeCostanzo AJ, Liu X, Wang Hy, Hallagan S, Moon RT, et al. G protein signaling from activated rat frizzled-1 to the beta-catenin-Lef-Tcf pathway. Science. 2001 Jun;292(5522):1718–22.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bobrow J, Kohn E, Mondragon-Gilmore J, Eggenschwiler J. CliffsNotes® Praxis I®: PPST®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Ramiro Fariñas D, Oris M, editors. New Approaches to Death in Cities during the Health Transition. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Buchmayr M, Kurschl W, Küng J. Customized Situation Verification in Ambient Assisted Living Environments. In: Augusto JC, Wichert R, Collier R, Keyson D, Salah AA, Tan A-H, editors. Ambient Intelligence: 4th International Joint Conference, AmI 2013, Dublin, Ireland, December 3-5, 2013. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013; pp 48–61.

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

Fang J. City Sparrows Are More Aggressive Than Their Country Cousins [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Jul [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/city-sparrows-are-more-aggressive-their-country-cousins/

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. Intercollegiate Athletics: Revenues and Expenses, Gender and Minority Profiles, and Compensation in Athletic Departments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Quintero MC. Constructing a Clinical Research Data Management System. 2017

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

Martin V. Pitfalls of Privilege. New York Times. 2014 Aug;BR11.

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)