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. Chapman T. Starting from scratch. Nature. 2004;430:113.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Titantah JT, Karttunen M. Water dynamics: relation between hydrogen bond bifurcations, molecular jumps, local density & hydrophobicity. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2991.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Euler T, Detwiler PB, Denk W. Directionally selective calcium signals in dendrites of starburst amacrine cells. Nature. 2002;418:845–52.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Chen C-Y, Ho A, Huang H-Y, Juan H-F, Huang H-C. Dissecting the human protein-protein interaction network via phylogenetic decomposition. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7153.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kumar V, Petersen JA. Statistical Methods in Customer Relationship Management. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

1. Aleksy M. Implementing Distributed Systems with Java and CORBA. Korthaus A, Schader M, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hekkala R, Heiskanen A, Rossi M. The Role of Social Capital as Antecedent in Clan Formation in Information Systems Outsourcing Project. In: Oshri I, Kotlarsky J, Willcocks LP, editors. Achieving Success and Innovation in Global Sourcing: Perspectives and Practices: 9th Global Sourcing Workshop 2015, La Thuile, Italy, February 18-21, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 83–99.

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. Andrews R. The Dino-Killing Asteroid Picked The Perfect Spot To Slam Into The Planet. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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 Corps: Comparison of Federal Program With State Youth Training Initiatives. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Mar. Report No.: HEHS-96-92.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Grigoryan A. Feedback 2.0 in online writing instruction: Combining audio-visual and text-based commentary to enhance student revision and writing competency [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 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

1. Vecsey G. A Star With a Smile, Forever Kid. New York Times. 2012 Feb 17;B10.

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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