Style for NIH grant

jonschatz · September 23, 2016

There's a citation style called "National Institutes of Health Research" but oddly, it does not meet requirements for an NIH grant, which require all authors to be listed in the reference. It also numbers citations in the text rather than using author-year (overwhelmingly preferred by people who actually know how to get grants funded...).

Seems like this should be an extremely high-demand style, so before I wade into figuring out the style editor, anyone know if it exists:

-Cite style (first author et al., year)
-Refs: alphabetical order by first author, ALL authors listed.

Thanks for any help.

adamsmith · September 23, 2016

certainly doesn't exist with PM(C)IDs listed. People who mentioned this before have preferred numbered citations, both to save on word counts and because that's what NIH's own Citing Medicine guidelines do.

bwiernik · September 23, 2016

The NIH style in the repository is based on the posted style guide from the time the style was made. If the requirements have changed, can you post a link to the current guidelines so that the style can be updated?

With regard to numeric vs. author-date, you could search here to see if there is a style that uses a format similar to the one you want?
http://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/

jonschatz · September 23, 2016

Copy pasted from this page: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/how-to-apply-application-guide/format-and-write/write-your-application.htm

"Provide a bibliography of any references cited in the Research Plan. Each reference must include the names of all authors (in the same sequence in which they appear in the publication), the article and journal title, book title, volume number, page numbers, and year of publication."

So definitely the one I mentioned is not usable as is.

adamsmith · September 23, 2016

oh, sorry, I didn't read your first post closely enough:
the "National Institute for Health Research" is a UK institution: http://www.nihr.ac.uk/ -- no relation to the US NIH.

The closest to an NIH style is this:
https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:national-library-of-medicine-grant-proposals which does use numbers in the text but indeed does not use et al.

adamsmith · September 23, 2016

If you just need any author-date style with no et al in the bibliography, there are countless options, including the pre-installed Elsevier Harvard style.

jonschatz · September 23, 2016

Elsevier Harvard looks good. Thanks.