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

Rochmyaningsih D. 2015. Don’t distort policy in the name of national pride. Nature 523:257.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kilger C, Bartenbach K. 2002. Patent law. New rules for German professors. Science 298:1173–1175.

A journal article with 3 authors

Culley AI, Lang AS, Suttle CA. 2003. High diversity of unknown picorna-like viruses in the sea. Nature 424:1054–1057.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Meng J, Hu Y, Wang Y, Wang X, Li C. 2006. A Mesozoic gliding mammal from northeastern China. Nature 444:889–893.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chu PP. 2011. Embedded SoPC Design with Nios II Processor and VHDL Examples. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zurada JM, Yen GG, Wang Jeditors. 2008. Computational Intelligence: Research Frontiers: IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2008, Hong Kong, China, June 1-6, 2008, Plenary/Invited Lectures. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. XVI, 389 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Zéphyr L, Lang P, Lamond BF, Côté P. 2016. Controlled Approximation of the Stochastic Dynamic Programming Value Function for Multi-Reservoir Systems. In: Fonseca RJ, Weber G-W, Telhada J, editors. Computational Management Science: State of the Art 2014, Cham: Springer International Publishing, p 31–37.

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

Andrew E. 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. 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ebrahimi A. 2015.

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

Fiske IH. 1907.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rochmyaningsih, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kilger and Bartenbach, 2002; Rochmyaningsih, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Kilger and Bartenbach, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Meng et al., 2006)

About the journal

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