How to format your references using the ReGen Open citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ReGen Open (REGEN). 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

Henry RC. The mental Universe. Nature 2005;436(7047):29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kahl BC, Peters G. Microbiology. Mayhem in the lung. Science 2007;315(5815):1082–1083.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nugent FS, Penick EC, Kauer JA. Opioids block long-term potentiation of inhibitory synapses. Nature 2007;446(7139):1086–1090.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bao L, Wang W, Meyer N, et al. Quantum corrections crossover and ferromagnetism in magnetic topological insulators. Sci Rep 2013;3:2391.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meinert CL. Clinical Trials Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2012.

An edited book

Xiao R. Corpus-Based Studies of Translational Chinese in English-Chinese Translation. (Hu X. ed). New Frontiers in Translation Studies. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Costello LC, Franklin RB. Integration of Genetic, Proteomic, and Metabolic Approaches in Tumor Cell Metabolism. In: Mitochondria and Cancer. (Costello L, Singh K. eds) Springer: New York, NY; 2009; pp. 79–92.

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 ReGen Open.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Old Mice Drinking Champagne Three Times A Week Navigate Labyrinths Better. IFLScience; 2015. [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. Federal Highway Programs: Status of Federal Highway Programs in the Absence of Reauthorization. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Siczek MM. Negotiating Socioacademic Space: The Lived Experience of International Second-Language Students in a Mainstream First-Year Writing Course. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University: Washington, DC; 2014.

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

Bowley G, Ember S. Will Her Story Convict Cosby? New York Times 2017;C1.

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	ReGen Open
ISSN (online)	2766-2705
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