How to format your references using the The HUGO Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The HUGO Journal. 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

Rockey S (2013) Transparency: Two years of blogging the NIH. Nature 493:298–299

A journal article with 2 authors

Piskorowski R, Aldrich RW (2002) Calcium activation of BK(Ca) potassium channels lacking the calcium bowl and RCK domains. Nature 420:499–502

A journal article with 3 authors

Maisel SB, Höfler M, Müller S (2012) A canonical stability-elasticity relationship verified for one million face-centred-cubic structures. Nature 491:740–743

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Asai T, Tena G, Plotnikova J, et al (2002) MAP kinase signalling cascade in Arabidopsis innate immunity. Nature 415:977–983

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Willan AR, Briggs AH (2006) Statistical Analysis of Cost-effectiveness Data. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Wada K (ed) (2015) Neurodegenerative Disorders as Systemic Diseases, 1st ed. 2015. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Pavone P (2009) Image Reconstruction. In: Fioranelli M, Dowe DA (eds) CT Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease. Springer, Milano, pp 37–51

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 The HUGO Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Cow Virus Now A Risk Factor For Breast Cancer. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1998) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Severity of Problem Calls for Strong Leadership and Effective Partnerships. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kim S (2004) Characterization of Ribosomal S6 Protein Phosphorylation and Posssible Control of Ribosome Biogenesis in Arabidopsis Cell Culture. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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

Kishkovsky S (2008) Investors in Russian Gas Venture Clash. New York Times C8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rockey 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Piskorowski and Aldrich 2002; Rockey 2013).

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

Two authors: (Piskorowski and Aldrich 2002)
Three or more authors: (Asai et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	The HUGO Journal
ISSN (print)	1877-6566
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