How to format your references using the Human Heredity citation style

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

McMahon RJ. Chemistry. Chemical reactions involving quantum tunneling. Science. 2003 Feb;299(5608):833–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rowan L, Coontz R. Great balls of fire. Star formation: a Web supplement. Science. 2002 Jan;295(5552):63.

A journal article with 3 authors

Elsässer SJ, Allis CD, Lewis PW. Cancer. New epigenetic drivers of cancers. Science. 2011 Mar;331(6021):1145–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang L, Gu Y, Chen H, Zhang J-Y, Cui Y, Gerardot BD, et al. Polarized linewidth-controllable double-trapping electromagnetically induced transparency spectra in a resonant plasmon nanocavity. Sci Rep. 2013 Oct;3:2879.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quéguiner B. The Biogeochemical Cycle of Silicon in the Ocean. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Altrock U, Schoon S, editors. Maturing Megacities: The Pearl River Delta in Progressive Transformation. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Benedetti R, Piersimoni F, Postiglione P. Advanced Methods to Design Samples for Land Use/Land Cover Surveys. In: Di Battista T, Moreno E, Racugno W, editors. Topics on Methodological and Applied Statistical Inference. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016; pp 31–42.

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 Heredity.

Blog post

Evans K. Here’s What A Serving Size Of Each Of Your Favorite Foods Looks Like [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Jul

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. Ways To Improve Management of Federally Funded Computerized Models. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kennedy KT. A Heuristic Study of Religious Spirituality and Meaningful Work. 2016

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

Lyman R. In Siege on Democracy, Polish Leaders Now Target Judicial System. New York Times. 2017 Jul;A10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Heredity
Abbreviation	Hum. Hered.
ISSN (print)	0001-5652
ISSN (online)	1423-0062
Scope	Genetics Genetics(clinical)