How to format your references using the Regenerative Therapy citation style

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

Johns-Krull CM. Astrophysics: Secret ingredient exposed. Nature 2014;514:571–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chang F, Peter M. Cell biology. Formins set the record straight. Science 2002;297:531–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bosch R, van de Pol M, Philp J. Policy: Define biomass sustainability. Nature 2015;523:526–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Smith MD, Roheim CA, Crowder LB, Halpern BS, Turnipseed M, Anderson JL, et al. Economics. Sustainability and global seafood. Science 2010;327:784–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Aubrey SB. The Profitable Hobby Farm. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Constanda C, Harris PJ, editors. Integral Methods in Science and Engineering: Computational and Analytic Aspects. 1st ed. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Chryssolouris G, Mavrikios D, Pappas M. A Web and Virtual Reality Based Paradigm for Collaborative Management and Verification of Design Knowledge. In: Bernard A, Tichkiewitch S, editors. Methods and Tools for Effective Knowledge Life-Cycle-Management, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 91–105.

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 Therapy.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. The Invisible Beauty of Wireless Networks. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/invisible-beauty-wireless-networks/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Public Safety Communications: Preliminary Information on FirstNet’s Efforts to Establish a Nationwide Broadband Network. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Zimmerman KL. Perceived and preferred organizational culture on behavior intentions in the hospitality industry. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 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

[1]

Finnegan J. ‘You Don’t Call Me.’ New York Times 2017:A15.

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 Therapy
Abbreviation	Regen. Ther.
ISSN (print)	2352-3204
Scope