How to format your references using the EXPLORE citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for EXPLORE. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Schubert C. Single-cell analysis: The deepest differences. Nature. 2011;480(7375):133-137.

A journal article with 2 authors

Slee EA, Lu X. Requirement for phosphorylation of P53 at Ser312 in suppression of chemical carcinogenesis. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3105.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weisz C, Glowatzki E, Fuchs P. The postsynaptic function of type II cochlear afferents. Nature. 2009;461(7267):1126-1129.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

George D, Lehrach W, Kansky K, et al. A generative vision model that trains with high data efficiency and breaks text-based CAPTCHAs. Science. 2017;358(6368).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chase CW. Next Generation Demand Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Bandle C, Losonczi L, Gilányi A, Páles Z, Plum M, eds. Inequalities and Applications: Conference on Inequalities and Applications, Noszvaj (Hungary), September 2007. Vol 157. Birkhäuser; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Gwynne SMV. Employing Human Egress Data. In: Peacock RD, Kuligowski ED, Averill JD, eds. Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics. Springer US; 2011:47-57.

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 EXPLORE.

Blog post

Fang J. Did Humans Coexist with Saber Cats? IFLScience. Published April 2, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/did-humans-coexist-saber-cats/

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. Human Resources Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ho L. Determination of Ibuprofen Isotherm Using Supercritical Fluid Chromatography. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida; 2012.

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

Crow K. Brando: Off the Waterfront, Into the Seminar Rooms. New York Times. December 10, 2000:1410.

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	EXPLORE
Abbreviation	Explore (NY)
ISSN (print)	1550-8307
Scope	Analysis Complementary and alternative medicine General Nursing Chiropractics

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