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

Kerr, R. A. (2000) SAVING KYOTO: Can the Kyoto Climate Treaty Be Saved From Itself? Science, 290, 920–921.

A journal article with 2 authors

Desai, M. M. & Walczak, A. M. (2015) Microbiology. Flexible gene pools. Science, 348, 977–978.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tynan, C. T., DeMaster, D. P., & Peterson, W. T. (2001) Endangered right whales on the southeastern Bering Sea shelf. Science, 294, 1894.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Fairman, M. E., Maroney, P. A., Wang, W., et al. (2004) Protein displacement by DExH/D “RNA helicases” without duplex unwinding. Science, 304, 730–734.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Charalambides, C. A. (2005) Combinatorial Methods in Discrete Distributions: Charalambides/Combinatorial (Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Yamaguchi, T. (2008) Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management: 7th International Conference, PAKM 2008, Yokohama, Japan, November 22-23, 2008. Proceedings (Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer), Vol. 5345.

A chapter in an edited book

Hasu, T., Bagge, A. H., & Haveraaen, M. (2013) Inferring Required Permissions for Statically Composed Programs. In Secure IT Systems: 18th Nordic Conference, NordSec 2013, Ilulissat, Greenland, October 18-21, 2013, Proceedings, H. Riis Nielson & D. Gollmann, eds. (Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer), pp. 51–66.

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, April 24) Smoking Pot Could Make You More Prone To False Memories. October 30, 2018, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/smoking-pot-could-make-you-more-prone-false-memories/

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 (1986) Weather Satellites: User Views on the Consequences of Eliminating a Civilian Polar Orbiter (No. RCED-86-111) 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

Holmstedt, C. (2013) Low voltage switched-current cell and its application (Doctoral dissertation) California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Kishkovsky, S. (2003, October 27) MOSCOW: THE BALLERINA SUES. New York Times, p. E2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kerr, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Desai & Walczak, 2015; Kerr, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Desai & Walczak, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Fairman and others, 2004)

About the journal

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