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What an Elsevier (numeric, with titles) reference looks like

Elsevier (numeric, with titles) is a numeric style: sources are cited with a bracketed or superscript number in the order they first appear, and the reference list is numbered to match.

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Journal article

[1] L.S. Babonis, M.Q. Martindale, A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians, PNAS 119 (2022) e2113701119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113701119.

Book

[1] T.S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of Chicago Press, 1970.

Web page

[1] IPCC, Climate change 2021: the physical science basis, (2021). https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/ (accessed July 15, 2026).

Journal article with 26 authors

[1] C.R. Harris, K.J. Millman, S.J. van der Walt, R. Gommers, P. Virtanen, D. Cournapeau, E. Wieser, J. Taylor, S. Berg, N.J. Smith, R. Kern, M. Picus, S. Hoyer, M.H. van Kerkwijk, M. Brett, A. Haldane, J.F. del Río, M. Wiebe, P. Peterson, P. Gérard-Marchant, K. Sheppard, T. Reddy, W. Weckesser, H. Abbasi, C. Gohlke, T.E. Oliphant, Array programming with NumPy, Nature 585 (2020) 357–362. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2.

Elsevier (numeric, with titles) at a glance

Read from the style file and checked against the examples above.

In the text, the first source is cited as [1].
For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
First names are shortened to initials.
DOIs are printed as links (https://doi.org/...).
Web pages include the date you accessed them.
The reference list is numbered in the order sources are first cited.
The style file was last updated in October 2019.

The guide this style follows: elsevier.com

How Elsevier (numeric, with titles) compares with IEEE Reference Guide version 11.29.2023

Where Elsevier (numeric, with titles) differs:

For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
DOIs are printed as links (https://doi.org/...).

The same journal article in IEEE Reference Guide version 11.29.2023

[1] L. S. Babonis and M. Q. Martindale, “A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians,” PNAS, vol. 119, no. 19, p. e2113701119, May 2022, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2113701119.

Open IEEE Reference Guide version 11.29.2023