How to format your references using the Nucleus citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nucleus. 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

Powell K. Save now, don’t pay later. Nature 2005; 433:336–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nath D, Shadan S. Dynamics of the cell. Nature 2011; 475:307.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mang PK, Larochelle S, Greven M. Condensed-matter physics: spurious magnetism in high-T(c) superconductor. Nature 2003; 426:139–40; discussion 140.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kadokura H, Tian H, Zander T, Bardwell JCA, Beckwith J. Snapshots of DsbA in action: detection of proteins in the process of oxidative folding. Science 2004; 303:534–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kerzner H. Project Management 2.0. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Deza M-M. Geometric Structure of Chemistry-Relevant Graphs: Zigzags and Central Circuits. New Delhi: Springer India; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Patrick S, McDowell A. Propionibacterium acnes: An Emerging Pathogen in Biomaterial-Associated Infection. In: Moriarty TF, Zaat SAJ, Busscher HJ, editors. Biomaterials Associated Infection: Immunological Aspects and Antimicrobial Strategies. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. page 87–105.

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 Nucleus.

Blog post

Andrew E. Drink A Glass Of Olive Oil Every Day – The Mediterranean Way To A Long Life [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/drink-glass-olive-oil-every-day-mediterranean-way-long-life/

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. International Education Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cox DC. A measurement of the neutral current neutrino-nucleon elastic cross section at MiniBooNE. 2008;

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

Otis J. She Waited Years to Enter the Ring, but Life Forced Her to Step Out. New York Times2017; :A24.

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	Nucleus
Abbreviation	Nucleus
ISSN (print)	1949-1034
ISSN (online)	1949-1042
Scope	Cell Biology