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]

B.M. Clement, Dependence of the duration of geomagnetic polarity reversals on site latitude, Nature 428 (2004) 637–640.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.L. Davidson, J. Chen, Structural biology. Flipping lipids: is the third time the charm?, Science 308 (2005) 963–965.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.H. Bailor, X. Sun, H.M. Al-Hashimi, Topology links RNA secondary structure with global conformation, dynamics, and adaptation, Science 327 (2010) 202–206.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, T. Guilderson, Solar forcing of drought frequency in the Maya lowlands, Science 292 (2001) 1367–1370.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Benslama, H. Batatia, A. Messai, Transitions from Digital Communications to Quantum Communications, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

C. Magnusson, D. Szymczak, S. Brewster, eds., Haptic and Audio Interaction Design: 7th International Conference, HAID 2012, Lund, Sweden, August 23-24, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Rahmandoust, M.R. Ayatollahi, CNT-Based Nanocomposites, in: M.R. Ayatollahi (Ed.), Characterization of Carbon Nanotube Based Composites under Consideration of Defects, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 117–175.

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]

E. Andrew, A New View of the Milky Way, 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, Education Reform: Initial Effects in Four School Districts, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

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. Porter, Orthographic influence on the perception and production of Spanish loans in English, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

J. Otis, Eritrean Couple’s Reunion, Decades in the Making, New York Times (2016) A29.

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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