How to format your references using the The Nucleus citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Nucleus. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. Fortini ME. Medicine. Anticipating trouble from gene transcription. Science. 2007;315:1800–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bhattachan A, D’Odorico P. Can land use intensification in the Mallee, Australia increase the supply of soluble iron to the Southern Ocean? Sci Rep. 2014;4:6009.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Strick TR, Croquette V, Bensimon D. Single-molecule analysis of DNA uncoiling by a type II topoisomerase. Nature. 2000;404:901–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kim KH, Yang M, Cho KM, Jun Y-S, Lee SB, Jung H-T. High quality reduced graphene oxide through repairing with multi-layered graphene ball nanostructures. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3251.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sage AP, Rouse WB. Economic Systems Analysis and Assessment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Weber M, Münch U, editors. Tomography of the Earth’s Crust: From Geophysical Sounding to Real-Time Monitoring: GEOTECHNOLOGIEN Science Report No. 21. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ongena M, Henry G, Thonart P. The Roles of Cyclic Lipopeptides in the Biocontrol Activity of Bacillus subtilis. In: Gisi U, Chet I, Gullino ML, editors. Recent Developments in Management of Plant Diseases. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. p. 59–69.

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 The Nucleus.

Blog post

1. Andrew D. New Study Finds Common Link Across Autism Spectrum Disorders. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. NASA Aeronautics: Efforts to Preserve U.S. Leadership in the Aeronautics Industry Are Limited. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Mar. Report No.: T-NSIAD-92-14.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. McCallister K. I Didn’t Mean to Show the Dirt [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2015.

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. Corkery M, Walsh MW. Governor of Puerto Rico Warns of Looming Default Without Bankruptcy Plan. New York Times. 2015 Dec 17;B6.

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	The Nucleus
Abbreviation	Nucleus (Calcutta)
ISSN (print)	0029-568X
ISSN (online)	0976-7975
Scope	Cell Biology Genetics Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine