How to format your references using the Human Mutation citation style

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

Voorhees PW. 2006. Materials science. Step dances on silicon. Science 313:1247–1249.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zubavicus Y, Grunze M. 2004. Chemistry. New insights into the structure of water with ultrafast probes. Science 304:974–976.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu L-A, Segal D, Brumer P. 2013. No-go theorem for ground state cooling given initial system-thermal bath factorization. Sci Rep 3:1824.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Buermann W, Forkel M, O’Sullivan M, Sitch S, Friedlingstein P, Haverd V, Jain AK, Kato E, Kautz M, Lienert S, Lombardozzi D, Nabel JEMS, et al. 2018. Widespread seasonal compensation effects of spring warming on northern plant productivity. Nature 562:110–114.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. 2014. Trayed and Packed Columns. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dittrich Y, Burnett M, Mørch A, Redmiles Deditors. 2013. End-User Development: 4th International Symposium, IS-EUD 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 10-13, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. XII, 311 p. 83 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Krzeszowiec W, Gabryś H. 2011. Intracellular Movements: Integration at the Cellular Level as Reflected in the Organization of Organelle Movements. In: Wojtaszek P, editor. Mechanical Integration of Plant Cells and Plants, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, p 91–116.

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 Mutation.

Blog post

Davis J. 2015.

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. 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lopez DE. 2009.

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

Shear MD. 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Voorhees, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Zubavicus and Grunze, 2004; Voorhees, 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Zubavicus and Grunze, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Buermann et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Human Mutation
Abbreviation	Hum. Mutat.
ISSN (print)	1059-7794
ISSN (online)	1098-1004
Scope	Genetics Genetics(clinical)