How to format your references using the Non-Coding RNA citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Non-Coding RNA. 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

Brock, D.W. Human Cloning and Our Sense of Self. Science 2002, 296, 314–316.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sung, S.; Amasino, R.M. Vernalization in Arabidopsis Thaliana Is Mediated by the PHD Finger Protein VIN3. Nature 2004, 427, 159–164.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chou, C.-H.; Chuang, J.-K.; Chen, F.-C. High-Performance Flexible Waveguiding Photovoltaics. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2244.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Opher, M.; Bibi, F.A.; Toth, G.; Richardson, J.D.; Izmodenov, V.V.; Gombosi, T.I. A Strong, Highly-Tilted Interstellar Magnetic Field near the Solar System. Nature 2009, 462, 1036–1038.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perez, R.X.; Conkey, A.P. Troubleshooting Rotating Machinery; John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2016; ISBN 9781119294443.

An edited book

Static Analysis: 16th International Symposium, SAS 2009, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 9-11, 2009. Proceedings; Palsberg, J., Su, Z., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; Vol. 5673; ISBN 9783642032363.

A chapter in an edited book

Ramanathan, V.; Yao, B.; Fei-Fei, L. Social Role Recognition for Human Event Understanding. In Human-Centered Social Media Analytics; Fu, Y., Ed.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; pp. 75–93 ISBN 9783319054902.

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 Non-Coding RNA.

Blog post

Andrew, E. The Horrifying Reason That Your Eyes Go Red In The Pool Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cdc-reveals-your-eyes-dont-itch-after-swimming-because-chlorine-its-pee-pol/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Biotechnology: Delays in and Status of EPA’s Efforts to Issue a TSCA Regulation; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1992;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cannon, M.P. Cenozoic Kinematics of the Little Pine Fault, Santa Maria Basin, California. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2013.

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

Hodara, S. A Show Meant to Provoke Double Takes. New York Times 2015, WE8.

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	Non-Coding RNA
Abbreviation	Noncoding RNA
ISSN (online)	2311-553X
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