How to format your references using the Regenerative Engineering and Translational Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Regenerative Engineering and Translational Medicine. 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

1. de Duve C. The joy of discovery. Nature. 2010;467:S5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Nisbet EG, Sleep NH. The habitat and nature of early life. Nature. 2001;409:1083–91.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Albert R, Jeong H, Barabasi AL. Error and attack tolerance of complex networks. Nature. 2000;406:378–82.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Shao Z, Haile SM, Ahn J, Ronney PD, Zhan Z, Barnett SA. A thermally self-sustained micro solid-oxide fuel-cell stack with high power density. Nature. 2005;435:795–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Helsel DR. Statistics for Censored Environmental Data Using Minitab® and R. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Ergüven M, Muramatsu T, Bilir A, editors. Midkine: From Embryogenesis to Pathogenesis and Therapy. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Krishnamurti R. Raising the i-Factor: Bridging Parametric Shape and Parametric Design. In: Gero JS, editor. Studying Visual and Spatial Reasoning for Design Creativity. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015. p. 67–88.

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 Regenerative Engineering and Translational Medicine.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Dogs May Have Originated In Central Asia. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Job Training: Effect of Under-Reported Unemployment Data on Grant Funding to Rural Areas. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985 Nov. Report No.: HRD-86-35BR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Detoya MS. Canned Food Choices of College Students Using the Nuval ® Nutrient-Profiling System [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

1. Hodara S. Front Porches and Easy Strolls. New York Times. 2016 Jul 24;RE8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Regenerative Engineering and Translational Medicine
Abbreviation	Regen. Eng. Transl. Med.
ISSN (print)	2364-4133
ISSN (online)	2364-4141
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