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

Clarke T. Infection risk puts the brakes on Canada’s biomedical research. Nature 2003; 422:652.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cassidy LD, Narita M. CELL BIOLOGY. GATA get a hold on senescence. Science 2015; 349:1448–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mongillo G, Barak O, Tsodyks M. Synaptic theory of working memory. Science 2008; 319:1543–6.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rault JE, Menteş TO, Locatelli A, Barrett N. Reversible switching of in-plane polarized ferroelectric domains in BaTiO3(001) with very low energy electrons. Sci Rep 2014; 4:6792.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nógrádi M. Stereoselective Synthesis. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2007.

An edited book

Stieltjes B. Diffusion Tensor Imaging: Introduction and Atlas. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Borchers H-J, Sen RN. Homogeneity Properties. In: Sen RN, editor. Mathematical Implications of Einstein-Weyl Causality. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. page 51–65.

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

Andrews R. Comet 67P Smells Like Cat Pee, Almonds, And Rotten Eggs. IFLScience2016;

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. Commercial Launch Vehicles: NASA Taking Measures to Manage Delays and Risks. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Linsenmeyer JP. A Nice Place to Live and Work: A Mixed-Methods Case Study of a Residential Life Living-Learning Community and Employment Model at a Top-Tier Midwestern University. 2017;

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

Rothenberg B. Again Flashing Classic Form, Venus Williams Advances. New York Times2017; :SP4.

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