How to format your references using the Nucleic Acid Therapeutics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nucleic Acid Therapeutics (NAT). 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

Ferrari R. Oceanography: What goes down must come up. Nature 2014;513(7517):179–180.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brookes JD, Carey CC. Ecology. Resilience to blooms. Science 2011;334(6052):46–47.

A journal article with 3 authors

Catalli K, Shim S-H, Prakapenka V. Thickness and Clapeyron slope of the post-perovskite boundary. Nature 2009;462(7274):782–785.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhao X, Meng G, Han F, et al. Nanocontainers made of various materials with tunable shape and size. Sci Rep 2013;3:2238.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Safe Warehousing of Chemicals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 1998.

An edited book

Harth W. Clinical Management in Psychodermatology. (Gieler U, Tausk FA, Kusnir D. eds). Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Sergienko VP, Bukharov SN. Friction-Excited Self-Oscillations. In: Noise and Vibration in Friction Systems. (Bukharov SN. ed). Springer Series in Materials Science Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2015; pp. 83–132.

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 Nucleic Acid Therapeutics.

Blog post

Hale T. Orcas Documented Hunting Rare Beaked Whales For The First Time Ever. IFLScience; 2016. [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office. Support for Development of Electronics and Materials Technologies by the Governments of the United States, Japan, West Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chung J. Quasi-One-Dimensional Modeling of an Adiabatic-Compression Preheated Ludwieg Tube. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, MD; 2015.

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

Nordland R. With Daring Cellphone Videos, Saudi Women Are Challenging Male Control. New York Times 2017;A7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Nucleic Acid Therapeutics
ISSN (print)	2159-3337
ISSN (online)	2159-3345
Scope