How to format your references using the Non-Coding RNA citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Non-Coding RNA. 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

Glass, L. Synchronization and Rhythmic Processes in Physiology. Nature 2001, 410, 277–284.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mescher, M.C.; De Moraes, C.M. Plant Biology: Pass the Ammunition. Nature 2014, 510, 221–222.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oye, K.A.; Lawson, J.C.H.; Bubela, T. Drugs: Regulate “home-Brew” Opiates. Nature 2015, 521, 281–283.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Seeger, M.A.; Schiefner, A.; Eicher, T.; Verrey, F.; Diederichs, K.; Pos, K.M. Structural Asymmetry of AcrB Trimer Suggests a Peristaltic Pump Mechanism. Science 2006, 313, 1295–1298.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Russell, D.L.; Arlow, P.C. Industrial Security; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2015; ISBN 9781119028437.

An edited book

Tropical Peatland Ecosystems; Osaki, M., Tsuji, N., Eds.; Springer Japan: Tokyo, 2016; ISBN 9784431556800.

A chapter in an edited book

Giovagnoli, A.; Marzialetti, J.; Wynn, H.P. Bivariate Dependence Orderings for Unordered Categorical Variables. In Optimal Design and Related Areas in Optimization and Statistics; Pronzato, L., Zhigljavsky, A., Eds.; Springer Optimization and Its Applications; Springer: New York, NY, 2009; pp. 81–96 ISBN 9780387799353.

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 Non-Coding RNA.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Interbreeding Among Early Hominins (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Transportation Accessibility: Lack of Data and Limited Enforcement Options Limit Federal Oversight; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2007;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McKinney, S. An Analysis of the Influence of No Child Left Behind and Arizona Learns on Middle -School Principal Leadership Behaviors and Responsibilities. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ, 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

Hodgman, J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times 2017, MM18.

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	Non-Coding RNA
Abbreviation	Noncoding RNA
ISSN (online)	2311-553X
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