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

Goldston D. Climate future. Nature. 459(7247), 628 (2009).

A journal article with 2 authors

Vecchi GA, Soden BJ. Effect of remote sea surface temperature change on tropical cyclone potential intensity. Nature. 450(7172), 1066–1070 (2007).

A journal article with 3 authors

Baldwin MP, Dameris M, Shepherd TG. Atmosphere. How will the stratosphere affect climate change? Science. 316(5831), 1576–1577 (2007).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Amor R, Mahajan S, Amos WB, McConnell G. Standing-wave-excited multiplanar fluorescence in a laser scanning microscope reveals 3D information on red blood cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 7359 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sewell G. Computational Methods of Linear Algebra. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Murty MR. Transcendental Numbers. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Rapp DN. Mental Models: Theoretical Issues for Visualizations in Science Education. In: Visualization in Science Education. Gilbert JK (Ed.), Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 43–60 (2005).

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

Fang J. Chimps “Talk” to Each Other About Their Favorite Fruit Trees [Internet]. IFLScience (2015). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chimps-talk-each-other-about-fruits-and-trees/.

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. FAA Procurement: Major Data-Processing Contract Should Not Be Awarded. 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

Tegtmeier T. Science-related attitudes of urban middle school students. (2009).

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

Saslow L. LIPA Kills Wind Farm Off Jones Beach. New York Times, LI2 (2007).

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

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