how to have alter citation style for references

tld0208
Beginners question ... I am using the Nature citation style, and this gives the reference list as single spaced. However, I need double spaced. How can I change this, while leaving the rest of the manuscript in the default Nature citation style? (This may well be posted somewhere, but I was not able to find it). This is on a Mac using Word 2008.
  • aurimas
    edited June 3, 2014
    Is this for a personal style or is this a requirement for some journal? If you just want this to apply to one document, you can edit the Bibliography formatting style in Word (which is what is applied to the bibliography)
  • tld0208
    This is really just for one document that is being submitted to the journal, but that is what they need. I can reformat the bibliography section manually, but when I do a refresh it goes back to the default of single-spaced.
  • aurimas
    As I said above, you need to modify the formatting style named "Bibliography". http://www.uwec.edu/help/word07/sty-bscs-m.htm#modifying
  • aurimas
    Also, what is the name of the journal. Odds are you can just use the style that's designed for that journal.
  • tld0208
    Thanks, modifying the formatting style seems to work just fine.

    The style that's defined for the journal (using their csl file) gives a single spaced reference list.
  • aurimas
    And the name of the journal is.... (we can just fix it in the CSL style if it's wrong)
  • tld0208
    Nature. They request double spaced reference list for submission, but I seem to get single spaced using the csl.
  • aurimas
    They don't mention this in their formatting guidelines. Is this coming directly from the editor?
  • tld0208
    I believe they do at the beginning of section 5 in the formatting guidelines that you reference.
  • aurimas
    OK, we can go with their general guideline. But you can confirm that an editor asked for double-spaced references, right?
  • tld0208
    edited June 3, 2014
    Yes. And thanks very much for your help.
  • adamsmith
    (aurimas fixed this since. thanks!)

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