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Science Citation Generator
Generate references in Science 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 Science reference looks like
Science 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, e2113701119 (2022).
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/.
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, 357–362 (2020).
Science at a glance
Read from the style file and checked against the examples above.
- Used mainly in the natural sciences.
- 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.
- 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 style file was last updated in July 2019.
The guide this style follows: science.org
How Science compares with NLM/Vancouver: Citing Medicine 2nd edition (citation-sequence, brackets)
Where Science differs:
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
- The reference leaves the DOI out.
- Web pages are cited without an access date.
The same journal article in NLM/Vancouver: Citing Medicine 2nd edition (citation-sequence, brackets)
1. Babonis LS, Martindale MQ. A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS. 2022 May 3;119(19):e2113701119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2113701119
Frequently asked questions
How many authors does Science list?
For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
How does Science 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 Science?
The reference list is numbered in the order sources are first cited.
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