How to format your references using the Nitric Oxide citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nitric Oxide. 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 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

[1]

E. Check, Biologists seek blueprint for international stem-cell effort, Nature 421 (2003) 102.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.H. Müser, D. Shakhvorostov, Applied physics. Why thick can be slick, Science 328 (2010) 52–53.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K. Simiyu, A.S. Daar, P.A. Singer, Global health. Stagnant health technologies in Africa, Science 330 (2010) 1483–1484.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Hagleitner, A. Hierlemann, D. Lange, A. Kummer, N. Kerness, O. Brand, H. Baltes, Smart single-chip gas sensor microsystem, Nature 414 (2001) 293–296.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Rehder, Chemistry in Space, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

A. Sattar, B.-H. Kang, eds., AI 2006: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 19th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hobart, Australia, December 4-8, 2006. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Cebamanos, D. Henty, H. Richardson, A. Hart, Auto-tuning an OpenACC Accelerated Version of Nek5000, in: S. Markidis, E. Laure (Eds.), Solving Software Challenges for Exascale: International Conference on Exascale Applications and Software, EASC 2014, Stockholm, Sweden, April 2-3, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 69–81.

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 Nitric Oxide.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, A Strangely Elongated Skull Of An Ancient Female Has Been Found In Korea, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/a-strangely-elongated-skull-of-an-ancient-female-has-been-found-in-korea/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, NASA Procurement Assessments, 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

[1]

J. Krisher, Cell-Matrix Interaction: Activation of the MAP Kinase Signaling Pathway in Salivary Gland Cells, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2017.

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]

B. Kelly, M. London, Bright Spots in the Rain Forest, New York Times (2004) A27.

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	Nitric Oxide
Abbreviation	Nitric Oxide
ISSN (print)	1089-8603
Scope	Biochemistry Cancer Research Clinical Biochemistry Physiology