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]

E.A. Winzeler, Malaria research in the post-genomic era, Nature 455 (2008) 751–756.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Boller, S.Y. He, Innate immunity in plants: an arms race between pattern recognition receptors in plants and effectors in microbial pathogens, Science 324 (2009) 742–744.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Säterberg, S. Sellman, B. Ebenman, High frequency of functional extinctions in ecological networks, Nature 499 (2013) 468–470.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

O.W.M. Rauhut, T. Martin, E. Ortiz-Jaureguizar, P. Puerta, A Jurassic mammal from South America, Nature 416 (2002) 165–168.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Thompson, J.D. Hogan, P.M. Clark, Developmental Psychology in Historical Perspective, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

S. Liu, ed., Structured Object-Oriented Formal Language and Method: Second International Workshop, SOFL 2012, Kyoto, Japan, November 13, 2012. Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Chen, H. Jeong, M.M.T. Loy, S. Du, Optical Precursor of a Single Photon, in: H. Jeong, M. Loy, S. Du (Eds.), Optical Precursors: From Classical Waves to Single Photons, Springer, Singapore, 2013: pp. 65–74.

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]

K. Hamilton, Scientists May Have Found Humans’ Oldest Known Ancestor – A Bag-Like Creature With No Anus, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-may-have-found-humans-oldest-known-ancestor-a-baglike-creature-with-no-anus/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, FAA Encountering Problems in Acquiring Major Automated Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.W. Childers, Evaluating parental opinions of healthy snack guidelines for youth soccer, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

J. Wogan, Accommodations; Equestrian Escape, New York Times (2016) ST3.

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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