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]

K. Tomioka, Condensed-matter Physics: Flat transistor defies the limit, Nature 526 (2015) 51–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.C. Wallace, X. Wang, Two new carnivores from an unusual late Tertiary forest biota in eastern North America, Nature 431 (2004) 556–559.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Horodecki, J. Oppenheim, A. Winter, Partial quantum information, Nature 436 (2005) 673–676.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Q. Yao, Z. Luo, X. Yuan, Y. Yu, C. Zhang, J. Xie, J.Y. Lee, Assembly of nanoions via electrostatic interactions: ion-like behavior of charged noble metal nanoclusters, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3848.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Möller, Geotechnik, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Ø. Bjøntegaard, RILEM Technical Committee 195-DTD Recommendation for Test Methods for AD and TD of Early Age Concrete: Round Robin Documentation Report: Program, Test Results and Statistical Evaluation, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.E. Santos, P.M. Gauzellino, Waves in a fluid-saturated poroelastic matrix composed of two weakly coupled solids, in: P.M. Gauzellino (Ed.), Numerical Simulation in Applied Geophysics, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 79–95.

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]

E. Andrew, Mantis shrimp see things differently... literally, IFLScience (2014).

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, Reagan National Airport: Limited Opportunities to Improve Airlines’ Compliance with Noise Abatement Procedures, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.M. Jo, A study of Korean students’ creativity in science using structural equation modeling, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2009.

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]

K. Crow, On Chinatown’s Basketball Courts, It’s the Year of Yao, New York Times (2003) 144.

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