Here are a few key items for citing in Nature Style:
- References are numbered in sequential order, as they appear in
the text, with only one publication listed for each
number.
- All authors should be included in reference lists unless there are
more than five, in which case only the first author should be given,
followed by ‘et al.’.
- Authors should be listed surname first, followed by a comma and initials of given names.
- Titles of articles
cited in reference lists are not italicized; the
first word of the title is capitalized and the title is written exactly as it
appears in the work cited. Book titles are
italicized with all main words capitalized.
- Journal titles are italicized and
abbreviated according to common usage. Volume numbers are bold. The
publisher and city of publication are required for books cited.
- References to websites should give authors if known, title of cited page, URL in full, and year of posting in parentheses.
