Nature Citation Style Generator

Paste DOIs and copy references in Nature journal style.

Paste one or more DOIs and the tool formats them in Nature journal style using the official Citation Style Language style, with metadata from Crossref, PubMed and OpenAlex. You can switch to any other journal style on the same page.

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Questions

What does a journal article look like in Nature style?

For the AlphaFold paper the generator gives: 1. Jumper, J. et al. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold. Nature 596, 583–589 (2021).

How do in-text citations work in Nature?

Nature numbers references in the order they appear in the text, shown as superscripts after punctuation. Methods references continue the same numbering.

How many authors do I list in Nature?

Nature lists up to 5 authors. With 6 or more, it gives the first author followed by et al. The volume number is set in bold.

How do I cite a DOI in Nature?

Paste the DOI, one per line, and press Continue. The generator reads the publisher's Crossref record and formats it in Nature journal style. Paste up to 50 DOIs to build a whole reference list.

Can I format for a specific journal instead?

Yes. Press Change above the results and search by journal name or abbreviation. The list covers more than 10,800 journal styles from the Citation Style Language repository used by Zotero and Mendeley.

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