How to format your references using the Human Gene Therapy Methods citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Human Gene Therapy Methods. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Krug RM. Influenza: An RNA-synthesizing machine. Nature 2014;516(7531):338–339.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ryan RJH, Bernstein BE. Molecular biology. Genetic events that shape the cancer epigenome. Science 2012;336(6088):1513–1514.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pelli DG, Farell B, Moore DC. The remarkable inefficiency of word recognition. Nature 2003;423(6941):752–756.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Losos JB, Leal M, Glor RE, et al. Niche lability in the evolution of a Caribbean lizard community. Nature 2003;424(6948):542–545.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lenk R, Lenk C. Practical Lighting Design With LEDs. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2011.

An edited book

Roberts GCK, (ed). Encyclopedia of Biophysics. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Wigley FM. Ischemic Digital Ulcers. In: A Visual Guide to Scleroderma and Approach to Treatment. (Mayes MD. ed) Springer: New York, NY; 2014; pp. 51–62.

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 Gene Therapy Methods.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. An Astronaut Just Ran The London Marathon In Space. IFLScience; 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/british-astronaut-tim-peake-going-run-london-marathon-space-weekend/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Mass Transit: FTA Needs to Better Define and Assess Impact of Certain Policies on New Starts Program. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

PerLee-Lange DL. An Introduction to the Juvenile Dependency Court Process and the Child Welfare System: A Curriculum for Parents. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA; 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

Vecsey G. A Usual Suspect Slips Into a Party Owned by Outsiders. New York Times 2011;D3.

In-text citations

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

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 Gene Therapy Methods
Abbreviation	Hum. Gene Ther. Methods
ISSN (print)	1946-6536
ISSN (online)	1946-6544
Scope	Genetics Molecular Medicine Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Genetics(clinical) Pharmacology