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. Goodman S. Battle to save beleaguered beluga. Nature. 2001;412:108.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Broza M, Halpern M. Pathogen reservoirs. Chironomid egg masses and Vibrio cholerae. Nature. 2001;412:40.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Le Mée L, Girardeau J, Monnier C. Mantle segmentation along the Oman ophiolite fossil mid-ocean ridge. Nature. 2004;432:167–72.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kostrewa D, Zeller ME, Armache K-J, Seizl M, Leike K, Thomm M, et al. RNA polymerase II-TFIIB structure and mechanism of transcription initiation. Nature. 2009;462:323–30.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Albalate A, Minker W. Semi-Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Gattringer H, Gerstmayr J, editors. Multibody System Dynamics, Robotics and Control. Vienna: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Liesche J, Schulz A. Symplasmic Transport in Phloem Loading and Unloading. In: Sokołowska K, Sowiński P, editors. Symplasmic Transport in Vascular Plants. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 133–63.

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. Hale T. Forensics Reconstruct The Face Of A Man Brutally Murdered 1,400 Year Ago [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/forensics-reconstruct-the-face-of-a-man-brutally-murdered-1400-year-ago/

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. Financial Management Systems: Lack of Disciplined Process Puts Effective Implementation of Treasury’s Governmentwide Financial Report System at Risk. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Apr. Report No.: GAO-06-413.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Conlin LD. Building shared understandings in introductory physics tutorials through risk, repair, conflict & comedy [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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. Quain JR. Self-Driving Cars Might Need Standards, but Whose? New York Times. 2017 Feb 23;B4.

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