How to format your references using the Regenerative Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Regenerative Therapy. 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]

Coyne JA. Evolution. Ernst Mayr (1904-2005). Science 2005;307:1212–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Solozhenko VL, Kurakevych OO. Equilibrium p-T phase diagram of boron: experimental study and thermodynamic analysis. Sci Rep 2013;3:2351.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Nazir S, Amin B, Schwingenschlögl U. Suppression of the two-dimensional electron gas in LaGaO3/SrTiO3 by cation intermixing. Sci Rep 2013;3:3409.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hanson R, Dobrovitski VV, Feiguin AE, Gywat O, Awschalom DD. Coherent dynamics of a single spin interacting with an adjustable spin bath. Science 2008;320:352–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Donald H, Robert D. G. Longitudinal Data Analysis: Hedeker/Longitudinal. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Takayasu M, Watanabe T, Takayasu H, editors. Econophysics Approaches to Large-Scale Business Data and Financial Crisis. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sheaff MT, Singh N. The Thyroid Gland. In: Singh N, editor. Cytopathology: An Introduction, London: Springer; 2013, p. 143–78.

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 Therapy.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. Lots Of Awesome Purple Deep-Sea Creatures Have Been Discovered This Year. 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. Wider Use of Better Computer Software Technology Can Improve Management Control and Reduce Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Canetta SE. Type III Neuregulin1 Signaling in Peripheral Sensory Neurons Affects Thermal Pain Sensation and Hyperalgesia. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University, 2010.

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]

Tappin B, Van Der Leer L, Mckay R. Your Opinion Is Set in Stone. New York Times 2017:SR8.

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 Therapy
Abbreviation	Regen. Ther.
ISSN (print)	2352-3204
Scope