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. Baker M. Antibody anarchy: A call to order. Nature. 2015;527:545–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Knobel RG, Cleland AN. Nanometre-scale displacement sensing using a single electron transistor. Nature. 2003;424:291–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Froese T, Iizuka H, Ikegami T. Embodied social interaction constitutes social cognition in pairs of humans: a minimalist virtual reality experiment. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3672.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Pachoud A, Jaiswal M, Wang Y, Hong B-H, Ahn J-H, Loh KP, et al. Multiple virtual tunneling of Dirac fermions in granular graphene. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3404.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Tapiero CS. Risk Finance and Asset Pricing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Mattassi R, Loose DA, Vaghi M, editors. Hemangiomas and Vascular Malformations: An Atlas of Diagnosis and Treatment. Milano: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hansen JB, Brincker R, Aenlle ML. Detection of Mass Change on a Glass Plate. In: Allemang R, De Clerck J, Niezrecki C, Wicks A, editors. Topics in Modal Analysis, Volume 7: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2013. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 61–6.

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. O`Callaghan J. Scientists Manage To Store Data Using Single Atoms. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. FCC: Policies and Rules Concerning Children’s Television Programming--Revision of Programming Policies for Television Broadcast Stations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Sep. Report No.: OGC-96-37.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Lanigan LG. Effects of Two Cancer Genes, HTLV-1 Tax and E-Cadherin, on Cancer Development and Progression [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2012.

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. Murphy MJO. The Rise of Modigliani’s Profile, and the Asking Prices for His Works. New York Times. 2015 Nov 13;C36.

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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