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

Camerer CF. Psychology and economics. Strategizing in the brain. Science. 2003 Jun;300(5626):1673–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shcheka SS, Keppler H. The origin of the terrestrial noble-gas signature. Nature. 2012 Oct;490(7421):531–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Acar M, Becskei A, van Oudenaarden A. Enhancement of cellular memory by reducing stochastic transitions. Nature. 2005 May;435(7039):228–32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Voyles J, Woodhams DC, Saenz V, Byrne AQ, Perez R, Rios-Sotelo G, et al. Shifts in disease dynamics in a tropical amphibian assemblage are not due to pathogen attenuation. Science. 2018 Mar;359(6383):1517–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bahgat G. Energy Security. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Albertos P. Feedback and Control for Everyone. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Bernhaupt R, Navarre D, Palanque P, Winckler M. Model-Based Evaluation: A New Way to Support Usability Evaluation of Multimodal Interactive Applications. In: Law EL-C, Hvannberg ET, Cockton G, editors. Maturing Usability: Quality in Software, Interaction and Value. London: Springer; 2008; pp 96–119.

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. Study Sheds Light On How Cannabis Antitumor Properties Work [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Jul [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/study-sheds-light-cannabis-antitumor-properties-work/

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. Aviation: Comparison of Airline “Customer Service Commitment” With Contracts of Carriage and Federal Law. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yoon Y. Nano-tribology of discrete track recording media. 2010

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

Brantley B. Theater; The Terrain Where Generations Meet. New York Times. 2017 Sep;AR4.

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)

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