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 (HMG). 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

Roelfsema, P.R. (2002) Do neurons predict the future? Science, 295, 227.

A journal article with 2 authors

Woodroffe, R. and Redpath, S.M. (2015) CONSERVATION. When the hunter becomes the hunted. Science, 348, 1312–1314.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ackerman, L.K.G., Lovell, M.M. and Weix, D.J. (2015) Multimetallic catalysed cross-coupling of aryl bromides with aryl triflates. Nature, 524, 454–457.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Veneti, Z., Bentley, J.K., Koana, T., Braig, H.R. and Hurst, G.D.D. (2005) A functional dosage compensation complex required for male killing in Drosophila. Science, 307, 1461–1463.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minoli, D. (2005) Nanotechnology Applications to Telecommunications and Networking. Nanotechnology Applications to Telecommunications and Networking; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, (2005) .

An edited book

Nair, P.K.R. and Garrity, D. (eds.) (2012) Agroforestry - The Future of Global Land Use. Agroforestry - The Future of Global Land Use; Advances in Agroforestry; Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, (2012) ; Vol. 9.

A chapter in an edited book

Ueno, K., Fukasawa, Y., Morihata, A. and Ohori, A. (2014) The Essence of Ruby. In Garrigue, J. (ed.), Programming Languages and Systems: 12th Asian Symposium, APLAS 2014, Singapore, Singapore, November 17-19, 2014, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 78–98.

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

Hale, T. (2016) How Could You Survive This Ancient Suicide Pact Puzzle? How Could You Survive This Ancient Suicide Pact Puzzle? https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-could-you-survive-this-ancient-suicide-pact-puzzle/ (accessed Oct 30, 2018).

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 (2014) Biosurveillance: Observations on the Cancellation of BioWatch Gen-3 and Future Considerations for the Program. Biosurveillance: Observations on the Cancellation of BioWatch Gen-3 and Future Considerations for the Program; GAO-14-267T; U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (2014) .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Barta, M.E. (2009) Culture, customer-centricity, and customer relationship management in an online postsecondary learning institution. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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. (2017) A Drink, and a Dissenting Opinion. A Drink, and a Dissenting Opinion. New York Times (2017) , C1.

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)