How to format your references using the Regenerative Medicine Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Regenerative Medicine Research. 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. Mills E. Insurance in a climate of change. Science. 2005;309:1040–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Parson EA, Keith DW. Science and regulation. End the deadlock on governance of geoengineering research. Science. 2013;339:1278–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Maertens GN, Hare S, Cherepanov P. The mechanism of retroviral integration from X-ray structures of its key intermediates. Nature. 2010;468:326–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Buscarino A, Gambuzza LV, Porfiri M, Fortuna L, Frasca M. Robustness to noise in synchronization of complex networks. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2026.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Krasner D. A History of Modern Drama. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

1. Richardson HW, Pan Q, Park J, Moore JE II, editors. Regional Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters and Metropolitan Policies. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Nadkarni V. Challenges to Interstate Security: China and India in the Twenty-First Century. In: Noonan NC, Nadkarni V, editors. Challenge and Change: Global Threats and the State in Twenty-first Century International Politics. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016. p. 71–103.

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 Research.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. How To Identify Someone With A Rare Disease. IFLScience. IFLScience; 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Commercial Aviation: Consumers Could Benefit from Better Information about Airline-Imposed Fees and Refundability of Government-Imposed Taxes and Fees. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010 Jul. Report No.: GAO-10-785.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Randall R. Department of Children and Family Services workers’ knowledge of childhood obesity and services for obese children [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

1. McGOVERN G. George McGovern on Op-Ed. New York Times. 2012 Oct 21;0.

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 Research
Abbreviation	Regen. Med. Res.
ISSN (online)	2050-490X
Scope