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 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. Greider CW. Molecular biology. Wnt regulates TERT--putting the horse before the cart. Science. 2012;336:1519–20.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Appavoo K, Haglund RF Jr. Polarization selective phase-change nanomodulator. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6771.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mouchel CF, Osmont KS, Hardtke CS. BRX mediates feedback between brassinosteroid levels and auxin signalling in root growth. Nature. 2006;443:458–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Woodcroft BJ, Singleton CM, Boyd JA, Evans PN, Emerson JB, Zayed AAF, et al. Genome-centric view of carbon processing in thawing permafrost. Nature. 2018;560:49–54.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Guinebretière R. X-ray Diffraction by Polycrystalline Materials. London, UK: ISTE; 2010.

An edited book

1. Kinny D, Hsu JY-J, Governatori G, Ghose AK, editors. Agents in Principle, Agents in Practice: 14th International Conference, PRIMA 2011, Wollongong, Australia, November 16-18, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Liu A, Pollard K. Biobanking for Personalized Medicine. In: Karimi-Busheri F, editor. Biobanking in the 21st Century. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 55–68.

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. Luntz S. Scientists Create Diamond Battery Fueled By Nuclear Waste. 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. Job Corps: Participant Selection and Performance Measurement Need to Be Improved. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Oct. Report No.: T-HEHS-98-37.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Carolina DS. A qualitative study of the healthcare experiences and health information acquisition of African American men [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 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. Kishkovsky CJCS, Andrew Kramer contributed reporting from Moscow for this article. AT LEAST 85 SLAIN AS REBELS ATTACK IN SOUTH RUSSIA. New York Times. 2005 Oct 14;A1.

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

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