How to format your references using the Synergy Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Synergy 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	Download the output style file
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]

Lawler A. Archaeology. Preserving history, one hill at a time. Science 2011;334:1623.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Doulatov S, Daley GQ. Development. A stem cell perspective on cellular engineering. Science 2013;342:700–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Soukoulis CM, Linden S, Wegener M. Physics. Negative refractive index at optical wavelengths. Science 2007;315:47–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Sung NS, Gordon JI, Rose GD, Getzoff ED, Kron SJ, Mumford D, et al. Science education. Educating future scientists. Science 2003;301:1485.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Yamarone R. The Trader’s Guide to Key Economic Indicators. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Camara O, Mansi T, Pop M, Rhode K, Sermesant M, Young A, editors. Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart. Imaging and Modelling Challenges: 4th International Workshop, STACOM 2013, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2013, Nagoya, Japan, September 26, 2013. Revised Selected Papers. vol. 8330. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Micali S, Shelat A. Purely Rational Secret Sharing (Extended Abstract). In: Reingold O, editor. Theory of Cryptography: 6th Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 15-17, 2009. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 54–71.

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 Synergy Research.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. Watch This Wingsuited Daredevil Pull Off The Highest BASE Jump Ever. 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. Satellite Control Capabilities: National Policy Could Help Consolidation and Cost Savings. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ritter D. The EU and conflict: Critically assessing the success of the ESDP and its impact in conflict areas. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, 2008.

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]

Grynbaum MM, Stack L. O’Reilly Addresses Fans Via Podcast as Fox News Adjusts to a New Lineup. New York Times 2017:B2.

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	Synergy Research
ISSN (print)	2213-7130
Scope	Cell Biology Molecular Biology Medicine (miscellaneous) Pharmacology (medical)