How to format your references using the Nuclear Receptor Signaling citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nuclear Receptor Signaling (NRS). 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	Download the output style file
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

Jacobson, M. Z. (2001) Strong radiative heating due to the mixing state of black carbon in atmospheric aerosols. Nature, 409, 695–697.

A journal article with 2 authors

Klein, M. L. & Shinoda, W. (2008) Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of self-assembling systems. Science, 321, 798–800.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hanczyc, M. M., Fujikawa, S. M., & Szostak, J. W. (2003) Experimental models of primitive cellular compartments: encapsulation, growth, and division. Science, 302, 618–622.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Grill, S. W., Howard, J., Schäffer, E., Stelzer, E. H. K., & Hyman, A. A. (2003) The distribution of active force generators controls mitotic spindle position. Science, 301, 518–521.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, K. Q. T. (2015) Wireless Communications (Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd).

An edited book

Baird, D., Scerri, E., & McIntyre, L. (2006) Philosophy Of Chemistry: Synthesis of a New Discipline (Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands), Vol. 242.

A chapter in an edited book

Debo, L. G. & Veeraraghavan, S. K. (2009) Models of Herding Behavior in Operations Management. In Consumer-Driven Demand and Operations Management Models: A Systematic Study of Information-Technology-Enabled Sales Mechanisms, C. S. Tang & S. Netessine, eds. (Boston, MA, Springer US), pp. 81–112.

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 Nuclear Receptor Signaling.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, May 2) Bats Have Touch Sensors in their Wings. October 30, 2018, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bats-have-touch-sensors-their-wings/

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 (1992) Tax Systems Modernization: IRS Award to MITRE Corporation Violated the Competition in Contracting Act (No. IMTEC-92-28) Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Peterson, G. G. (2013) Long-Term Effects of Care Management on Mortality, Hospitalizations, and Medicare Costs Among Chronically-Ill Medicare Beneficiaries (Doctoral dissertation) George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2005, May 11) World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Arson Suspected In Synagogue Fire. New York Times, p. A9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Jacobson, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Jacobson, 2001; Klein & Shinoda, 2008).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Klein & Shinoda, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Grill and others, 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nuclear Receptor Signaling
Abbreviation	Nucl. Recept. Signal.
ISSN (online)	1550-7629
Scope	General Medicine