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

Morgenstern, M. Physics. STM Ready for the Time Domain. Science 2010, 329, 1609–1610.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bucher, G.; Sander, W. Physical Chemistry. Clarifying the Structure of Carbonic Acid. Science 2014, 346, 544–545.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bordenstein, S.R.; O’Hara, F.P.; Werren, J.H. Wolbachia-Induced Incompatibility Precedes Other Hybrid Incompatibilities in Nasonia. Nature 2001, 409, 707–710.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ghoshal, T.; Maity, T.; Senthamaraikannan, R.; Shaw, M.T.; Carolan, P.; Holmes, J.D.; Roy, S.; Morris, M.A. Size and Space Controlled Hexagonal Arrays of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanodots: Magnetic Studies and Application. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2772.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sutt, J.; Lill, I.; Müürsepp, O. The Engineer’s Manual of Construction Site Planning; John Wiley & Sons: Oxford, 2013; ISBN 9781118556054.

An edited book

Nonlinear Waves in Fluids: Recent Advances and Modern Applications; Grimshaw, R., Ed.; CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Courses and Lectures; Springer: Vienna, 2005; Vol. 483; ISBN 9783211252598.

A chapter in an edited book

Silanikove, N. Milk Lipoprotein Membranes and Their Imperative Enzymes. In Bioactive Components of Milk; Bösze, Z., Ed.; Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology; Springer: New York, NY, 2008; pp. 143–161 ISBN 9780387740867.

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

Hale, T. Which European City Takes The Most Drugs, According To Sewage Wastewater Analysis? Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/which-european-city-takes-the-most-drugs-according-to-sewage-wastewater-analysis/ (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 Information Technology: FBI Needs an Enterprise Architecture to Guide Its Modernization Activities; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2003;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Senk, J.M. The Life Stories of Women Warriors: An Exploratory Study of Female Student-Veterans Balancing the Transition to College. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University: Malibu, CA, 2015.

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

Johnson, G. Turning Nature Against Cancer. New York Times 2015, D3.

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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