How to format your references using the Regenerative Medicine citation style

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

Fine I. Sensory systems: Do you hear what I see? Nature 508(7497), 461–462 (2014).

A journal article with 2 authors

Bliss T, Schoepfer R. Neuroscience. Controlling the ups and downs of synaptic strength. Science 304(5673), 973–974 (2004).

A journal article with 3 authors

Kernbauer E, Ding Y, Cadwell K. An enteric virus can replace the beneficial function of commensal bacteria. Nature 516(7529), 94–98 (2014).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nelson C, Goto S, Lund K, Hung W, Sadowski I. Srb10/Cdk8 regulates yeast filamentous growth by phosphorylating the transcription factor Ste12. Nature 421(6919), 187–190 (2003).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ergül Ö, Gürel L. The Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm (MLFMA) for Solving Large-Scale Computational Electromagnetics Problems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2014).

An edited book

Trivedi R, Saba L, Suri JS (Eds.). 3D Imaging Technologies in Atherosclerosis. (1st ed. 2015 Edition). Springer US, Boston, MA (2015).

A chapter in an edited book

Ju S, Kim Y, Jeong S et al. Gamma-Ray Dose-Rate Dependence on Radiation Resistance of Specialty Optical Fiber with Inner Cladding Layers. In: Photoptics 2014: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology Revised Selected Papers. Ribeiro PA, Raposo M (Ed.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 51–65 (2016).

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 Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E. ‘Lovesick Birds Are Worse Parents Than Happy Couples’ (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

Government Accountability Office. The Excepted Service: A Research Profile, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (1997).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cinquemani S. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, (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

Sang-Hun C, Fackler M, Cowan AL, Sayare S. Greed Before the Fall, (2014).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Regenerative Medicine
Abbreviation	Regen. Med.
ISSN (print)	1746-0751
ISSN (online)	1746-076X
Scope	Biomedical Engineering Embryology