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

Benton, M. J. (2009) The Red Queen and the Court Jester: species diversity and the role of biotic and abiotic factors through time. Science, 323, 728–732.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stewart, I. & Cohen, J. (2000) Monolith. Nature, 408, 913.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun, L., Xie, Z., & Zhao, J. (2000) A 3,000-year record of penguin populations. Nature, 407, 858.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lee, J. H., Fang, L., Vlahos, E., et al. (2011) A strong ferroelectric ferromagnet created by means of spin-lattice coupling. Nature, 476, 114.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Russell, D. L. & Arlow, P. C. (2015) Industrial Security (Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc).

An edited book

Ammari, K. (2015) Stabilization of Elastic Systems by Collocated Feedback (S. Nicaise, Ed.) (Cham, Springer International Publishing), Vol. 2124.

A chapter in an edited book

Nafar, M. & Kalantari, S. (2016) Biomarkers in Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis. In Biomarkers in Kidney Disease, V. B. Patel & V. R. Preedy, eds. (Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands), pp. 779–809.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, May 1) One In Six Species Faces Extinction As A Result Of Climate Change. October 30, 2018, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/one-six-species-faces-extinction-result-climate-change/

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 (1998) Air Traffic Control: Timely Completion of FAA’s Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System Software Is at Risk (No. AIMD-98-41R) 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

Beaven, L. (2014) Epiphanies of soul: “When the bolts of the universe fly open.” A depth psychological contemplation of wonder (Doctoral dissertation) Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Rashbaum, W. K. & Mueller, B. (2015, June 27) Escaped Killer Is Fatally Shot in New York. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benton, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Benton, 2009; Stewart & Cohen, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Stewart & Cohen, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Lee and others, 2011)

About the journal

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