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

Tempel E. Cosmology: Meet the Laniakea supercluster. Nature. 2014 Sep;513(7516):41–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peacock T, Bradley E. Applied physics. Going with (or against) the flow. Science. 2008 Jun;320(5881):1302–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kinoshita T, Wenger T, Weiss DS. Observation of a one-dimensional Tonks-Girardeau gas. Science. 2004 Aug;305(5687):1125–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

van der Pluijm BA, Hall CM, Vrolijk PJ, Pevear DR, Covey MC. The dating of shallow faults in the Earth’s crust. Nature. 2001 Jul;412(6843):172–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Connors LA, Alvarez C. How Markets Really Work. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Faro SH, Mohamed FB, editors. BOLD fMRI: A Guide to Functional Imaging for Neuroscientists. New York, NY: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Cartier P, Dhombres J, Heinzmann G, Villani C. The Nature and Challenges of Mathematics Research. In: Dhombres J, Heinzmann G, Villani C, editors. Freedom in Mathematics. New Delhi: Springer India; 2016; pp 63–109.

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. Horses Use Eyes And Ears To Communicate [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Aug [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/horses-use-eyes-and-ears-communicate/

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. Severe Storms Research Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Williamson CL. Hispanic female undergraduates perception of nursing as a career choice: A phenomenological study. 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

Kelly C. Shelter’s Legal Arm Observes Anniversary. New York Times. 2007 Mar;14WC2.

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)