How to format your references using the Nucleic Acid Therapeutics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nucleic Acid Therapeutics (NAT). 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

Medzhitov R. Origin and physiological roles of inflammation. Nature 2008;454(7203):428–435.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chudinovskikh L, Boehler R. High-pressure polymorphs of olivine and the 660-km seismic discontinuity. Nature 2001;411(6837):574–577.

A journal article with 3 authors

Beldade P, Koops K, Brakefield PM. Developmental constraints versus flexibility in morphological evolution. Nature 2002;416(6883):844–847.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zong Y, Chen Z, Innes JB, et al. Fire and flood management of coastal swamp enabled first rice paddy cultivation in east China. Nature 2007;449(7161):459–462.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Svrcek WY, Mahoney DP, Young BR. A Real-Time Approach to Process Control. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2007.

An edited book

Cifuentes-Madrid JH, Landoni Couture P, Llinàs-Audet X, (eds). Strategic Management of Universities in the Ibero-America Region: A Comparative Perspective. Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Quast M, Handel MJ, Favre J-M, et al. Social Information Systems: Agility Without Chaos. In: Enterprise Information Systems: 14th International Conference, ICEIS 2012, Wroclaw, Poland, June 28 - July 1, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. (Cordeiro J, Maciaszek LA, Filipe J. eds). Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2013; pp. 55–71.

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 Nucleic Acid Therapeutics.

Blog post

Davis J. Lost Medieval City Discovered On England-Wales Border. IFLScience; 2017. [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. English Language Learning: Diverse Federal and State Efforts to Support Adult English Language Learning Could Benefit from More Coordination. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Solano Cahuana IL. The Production of Apologies by Colombian Learners of English A Study of Pragmatic Acquisition in an EFL Context. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University: Edwardsville, IL; 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

Forman J Jr. ‘We Are Not Beasts.’ New York Times 2016;BR20.

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	Nucleic Acid Therapeutics
ISSN (print)	2159-3337
ISSN (online)	2159-3345
Scope