How to format your references using the Regenerative Medicine Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Regenerative Medicine Research. 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. C Clarke SA. Stranger than science fiction. Science. 2000;289:727.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Pedraza JM, Paulsson J. Effects of molecular memory and bursting on fluctuations in gene expression. Science. 2008;319:339–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Otto SB, Rall BC, Brose U. Allometric degree distributions facilitate food-web stability. Nature. 2007;450:1226–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hong J, Park MK, Lee EJ, Lee D, Hwang DS, Ryu S. Origin of new broad Raman D and G peaks in annealed graphene. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2700.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hessel V, Löwe H, Müller A, Kolb G. Chemical Micro Process Engineering. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

1. Bouyssounouse B. Embedded Systems Design: The ARTIST Roadmap for Research and Development. Sifakis J, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Girardi D, Giretzlehner M, Küng J. Using Generic Meta-Data-Models for Clustering Medical Data. In: Böhm C, Khuri S, Lhotská L, Renda ME, editors. Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics: Third International Conference, ITBAM 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 4-5, 2012 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 40–53.

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 Regenerative Medicine Research.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Conflicting Findings On The Survival Of The Greenland Ice Sheet. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Telecommunications: State and Federal Actions to Curb Slamming and Cramming. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Jul. Report No.: RCED-99-193.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Vestergaard EV. The shadow in Latvian mythological legends: A Jungian perspective [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 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

1. Anderson J. A First-Timer, but No Rookie. New York Times. 2017 Jul 26;C4.

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	Regenerative Medicine Research
Abbreviation	Regen. Med. Res.
ISSN (online)	2050-490X
Scope