How to format your references using the Nucleic Acids Research - Web Server Issue citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nucleic Acids Research - Web Server Issue. 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

1. Nabel,G.J. (2005) Immunology. Close to the edge: neutralizing the HIV-1 envelope. Science, 308, 1878–1879.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15976295

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Riordan,O. and Warnke,L. (2011) Explosive percolation is continuous. Science, 333, 322–324.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21764743

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Li,J., An,J. and Ting,C.S. (2013) Interaction-induced localization of mobile impurities in ultracold systems. Sci. Rep., 3, 3147.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3818680

A journal article with 11 or more authors

1. Deconto,R.M., Pollard,D., Wilson,P.A., Pälike,H., Lear,C.H. and Pagani,M. (2008) Thresholds for Cenozoic bipolar glaciation. Nature, 455, 652–656.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18833277

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Stahl,S. and Stenson,C. (2013) Introduction to Topology and Geometry John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

1. Valavanis,K.P. and Vachtsevanos,G.J. eds. (2015) Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Franklin,M.E. and Tolin,D.F. (2007) What Should be Done? In Tolin,D.F. (ed), Treating Trichotillomania: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Hairpulling and Related Problems. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 51–60.

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 Acids Research - Web Server Issue.

Blog post

1. Hale,T. (2015) Students Create 3D-Printed Wheelchair For Disabled Kitten. IFLScience.

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

1. Government Accountability Office (1992) FAA Budget: Key Issues Need to Be Addressed 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

1. Ghadimian,V. (2017) Renewable Energy Marketplace.

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

1. Koblin,J. (2017) Apple’s First Big TV Move: A Spielberg Series Reboot. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

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 Acids Research - Web Server Issue
Abbreviation	Nucleic Acids Res.
ISSN (print)	0305-1048
ISSN (online)	1362-4962
Scope	Genetics