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

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

[1]

L.A.J. O’Neill, Plant science. Innate immunity in plants goes to the PUB, Science 332 (2011) 1386–1387.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.G. Suits, D.H. Parker, Photochemistry. Hot molecules--off the beaten path, Science 346 (2014) 30–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K. Xu, P. Cao, J.R. Heath, Graphene visualizes the first water adlayers on mica at ambient conditions, Science 329 (2010) 1188–1191.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Santiago, F. Dupeux, A. Round, R. Antoni, S.-Y. Park, M. Jamin, S.R. Cutler, P.L. Rodriguez, J.A. Márquez, The abscisic acid receptor PYR1 in complex with abscisic acid, Nature 462 (2009) 665–668.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. Ginena, A. Hamid, Foundations of Sharī‘ah Governance of Islamic Banks, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

L. Zhang, A. Allanore, C. Wang, J.A. Yurko, J. Crapps, eds., Materials Processing Fundamentals, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A.-S.K. Pathan, C.S. Hong, Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, in: S. Misra, I. Woungang, S. Chandra Misra (Eds.), Guide to Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Springer, London, 2009: pp. 59–96.

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 Research.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Vaccine Against Alzheimer’s Disease Protein Passes First Stage Of Clinical Trials, IFLScience (2016).

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, Telecommunications: Preliminary Information on Media Ownership, 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

[1]

E.R. Gonzalez, Technology and adiposity: Effects of television time, video or computer game time, and computer use on body fat among Latino youth, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

R. Lyman, M.W. Walsh, One City’s Return to Solvency Leaves Big Problem Unsolved, New York Times (2013) A1.

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 Research
Abbreviation	Noncoding RNA Res.
ISSN (print)	2468-0540
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