How to format your references using the ReGen Open citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ReGen Open (REGEN). 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

Vedral V. Quantifying entanglement in macroscopic systems. Nature 2008;453(7198):1004–1007.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wayland B, Fu X. Chemistry. Building molecules with carbon monoxide reductive coupling. Science 2006;311(5762):790–791.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saran R, Stolojan V, Curry RJ. Ultrahigh performance C60 nanorod large area flexible photoconductor devices via ultralow organic and inorganic photodoping. Sci Rep 2014;4:5041.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Littlefair SP, Dhillon VS, Marsh TR, et al. A brown dwarf mass donor in an accreting binary. Science 2006;314(5805):1578–1580.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fleckenstein P, Tranum-Jensen J, Myschetzky PS. Anatomy in Diagnostic Imaging. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Oxford, UK; 2014.

An edited book

Pouliot J, Daniel S, Hubert F, et al., (eds). Progress and New Trends in 3D Geoinformation Sciences. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

O’Sullivan C, Walters R. Criminology, War and Environmental Despoliation. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and War. (McGarry R, Walklate S. eds) Palgrave Macmillan UK: London; 2016; pp. 79–96.

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 ReGen Open.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Electromagnetism Has The Same Strength Across The Universe. 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. Intellectual Property: Leadership and Accountability Needed to Strengthen Federal Protection and Enforcement. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rajendran N. Assessment of Upper Extremity Strength, Power, and Flexibility Characteristics of College-Aged Male and Female Students. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA; 2010.

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

Yablonsky L. Spacewalk. New York Times 2012;ST3.

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	ReGen Open
ISSN (online)	2766-2705
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