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Nucleic Acids Research Citation Generator
Generate references in Nucleic Acids Research from a DOI or link in seconds. CitApp renders this style with citeproc, the same engine as Zotero and Mendeley, so every comma matches the spec. Free for students, no sign-up to try.
What a Nucleic Acids Research reference looks like
Nucleic Acids Research 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. Babonis,L.S. and Martindale,M.Q. (2022) A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS, 119, e2113701119.
Book
1. Kuhn,T.S. (1970) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions University of Chicago Press.
Web page
1. IPCC (2021) Climate change 2021: the physical science basis.
Journal article with 26 authors
1. Harris,C.R., Millman,K.J., van der Walt,S.J., Gommers,R., Virtanen,P., Cournapeau,D., Wieser,E., Taylor,J., Berg,S., Smith,N.J., et al. (2020) Array programming with NumPy. Nature, 585, 357–362.
Nucleic Acids Research at a glance
Read from the style file and checked against the examples above.
- Used mainly in biology.
- In the text, the first source is cited as (1).
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names the first 10 authors and shortens the rest.
- First names are shortened to initials.
- The reference leaves the DOI out.
- Web pages are cited without an access date.
- The reference list is numbered in the order sources are first cited.
- The reference list uses a hanging indent.
- The style file was last updated in September 2012.
The guide this style follows: academic.oup.com
How Nucleic Acids Research compares with Trends journals
Where Nucleic Acids Research differs:
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names the first 10 authors and shortens the rest.
- Web pages are cited without an access date.
- The reference list uses a hanging indent, which Trends journals does not.
The same journal article in Trends journals
1. Babonis, L.S. and Martindale, M.Q. (2022) A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS 119, e2113701119
Frequently asked questions
How many authors does Nucleic Acids Research list?
For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names the first 10 authors and shortens the rest.
How does Nucleic Acids Research handle DOIs and web pages?
The reference leaves the DOI out. Web pages are cited without an access date.
How is the reference list ordered in Nucleic Acids Research?
The reference list is numbered in the order sources are first cited. The reference list uses a hanging indent.
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