How to format your references using the Human Molecular Genetics citation style

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

1. Gewin,V. (2005) Industry lured by the gains of going green. Nature, 436, 173.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Andreasen,R. and Sharma,M. (2009) Comment on ‘Neodymium-142 evidence for Hadean mafic crust’. Science, 325, 267; author reply 267.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Tahir,M., MacKinnon,A. and Schwingenschlögl,U. (2014) Novel spectral features of nanoelectromechanical systems. Sci. Rep., 4, 4035.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

1. Merbach,M.A., Merbach,D.J., Maschwitz,U., Booth,W.E., Fiala,B. and Zizka,G. (2002) Mass march of termites into the deadly trap. Nature, 415, 36–37.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Summerhayes,S.D. (2016) CDM Regulations 2015 Procedures Manual John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

1. Krege,S. ed. (2015) Diagnosis and Management of Testicular Cancer: The European Point of View Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Alloyeau,D. (2012) Transmission Electron Microscopy: A Multifunctional Tool for the Atomic-scale Characterization of Nanoalloys. In Alloyeau,D., Mottet,C., Ricolleau,C. (eds), Nanoalloys: Synthesis, Structure and Properties, Engineering Materials. Springer, London, pp. 113–157.

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 Molecular Genetics.

Blog post

1. Andrew,E. (2015) I’m Stuck Like Glue: Why I Love Magnets and you Should Too. IFLScience.

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 (1999) Federal Judiciary: Information on the Weighted Filings Assigned to Senior District and Magistrate Judges in Fiscal Year 1997 in 21 District Courts U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Pulsifer,J.E. (2012) Learning from the Uighurs: Correcting Inadequate Due Process in Terrorist Financing Sanction Regimes.

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. Poniewozik,J. (2016) The New TV Reality: All Trump. New York Times.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 Molecular Genetics
Abbreviation	Hum. Mol. Genet.
ISSN (print)	0964-6906
ISSN (online)	1460-2083
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology General Medicine Genetics(clinical)