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

Liechty J. Scientists and bankers - a new model army. Nature. 484(7393), 143 (2012).

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang X, Zhou Z. Palaeontology: pterosaur embryo from the Early Cretaceous. Nature. 429(6992), 621 (2004).

A journal article with 3 authors

Meschke M, Guichard W, Pekola JP. Single-mode heat conduction by photons. Nature. 444(7116), 187–190 (2006).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Perrings C, Naeem S, Ahrestani F, et al. Conservation. Ecosystem services for 2020. Science. 330(6002), 323–324 (2010).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown R. Rational Choice and Judgment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Zäpfel G. Metaheuristic Search Concepts: A Tutorial with Applications to Production and Logistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Páez DG, Padrón V, de Buenaga M, Aparicio F. Improving Health Services Using Cloud Computing, Big Data and Wireless Sensors. In: Ambient Assisted Living and Active Aging: 5th International Work-Conference, IWAAL 2013, Carrillo, Costa Rica, December 2-6, 2013, Proceedings. Nugent C, Coronato A, Bravo J (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 35–38 (2013).

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. Why Does Asparagus Make Some People’s Pee Smell But Not Others? [Internet]. IFLScience (2015). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-does-asparagus-make-some-people-s-pee-smell-not-others/.

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. DOD Business Systems Modernization: Longstanding Management and Oversight Weaknesses Continue to Put Investments at Risk. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pitron JE. The influence of exemplary followership on organizational performance: A phenomenological approach. (2008).

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

Davis JH. A Complex Relationship Has an Abrupt Ending. New York Times, A20 (2017).

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