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

Chyba, C.F. Atmospheric Science. Countering the Early Faint Sun. Science 2010, 328, 1238–1239.

A journal article with 2 authors

Souza, A.M.C.; Andrade, R.F.S. Coin State Properties in Quantum Walks. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1976.

A journal article with 3 authors

Samokhvalov, I.M.; Samokhvalova, N.I.; Nishikawa, S.-I. Cell Tracing Shows the Contribution of the Yolk Sac to Adult Haematopoiesis. Nature 2007, 446, 1056–1061.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Samejima, K.; Ueda, Y.; Doya, K.; Kimura, M. Representation of Action-Specific Reward Values in the Striatum. Science 2005, 310, 1337–1340.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dacey, J.S.; Fiore, L.B.; Brion-Meisels, S. Your Child’s Social and Emotional Well-Being; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2016; ISBN 9781118976227.

An edited book

Cryogenic Particle Detection; Enss, C., Ed.; Topics in Applied Physics; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005; Vol. 99; ISBN 9783540201137.

A chapter in an edited book

MacFarland, T.W.; Yates, J.M. Mann–Whitney U Test. In Introduction to Nonparametric Statistics for the Biological Sciences Using R; Yates, J.M., Ed.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 103–132 ISBN 9783319306339.

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

Luntz, S. Tusks Tell The Tale Of Mammoth Extinction (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 Financial Management Systems: OMB’s Financial Management Line of Business Initiative Continues but Future Success Remains Uncertain; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2009;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Woodworth, J.W. Secure Semantic Search over Encrypted Big Data in the Cloud. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana: Lafayette, LA, 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

Southall, A.; McKINLEY, J.C., Jr Caregiver Who Abused 4-Year-Old Boy Faces 22-Year Sentence for Murder. New York Times 2016, A22.

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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