How to format your references using the Cancer Cell citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cancer Cell. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Henrich, J. (2014). Psychology. Rice, psychology, and innovation. Science 344, 593–594.

A journal article with 2 authors

McMichael, A.J., and Rowland-Jones, S.L. (2001). Cellular immune responses to HIV. Nature 410, 980–987.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao, B.S., Meijer, G., and Schöllkopf, W. (2011). Quantum reflection of He2 several nanometers above a grating surface. Science 331, 892–894.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mao, B., Wu, W., Li, Y., Hoppe, D., Stannek, P., Glinka, A., and Niehrs, C. (2001). LDL-receptor-related protein 6 is a receptor for Dickkopf proteins. Nature 411, 321–325.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Pai MD FACC FRCP Edin, R.G., and Varadarajan MD FACC, P. (2014). Echocardiography Board Review (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd).

An edited book

Hansson, S.O., and Hirsch Hadorn, G. eds. (2016). The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis: Reasoning about Uncertainty (Springer International Publishing).

A chapter in an edited book

Tani, S., Narazaki, H., Ueda, Y., Nakamura, Y., Hino, T., Ohyama, S., Tomari, S., Yokota, C., Ohboshi, N., Minematsu, K., et al. (2016). A Web-Based Stroke Education Application for Older Elementary Schoolchildren Focusing on the FAST Message. In Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2015 Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies., Y.-W. Chen, C. Torro, S. Tanaka, R. J. Howlett, and L. C. Jain, eds. (Springer International Publishing), pp. 37–48.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Cancer Cell.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Would You Take A Bath In Red Wine For Your Health? IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/would-you-take-bath-red-wine-your-health/.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (1987). U.S. Science and Engineering Base: A Synthesis of Concerns About Budget and Policy Development (U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Gerhart, T. (2013). Convex optimization techniques and their application in hyperspectral video processing.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Gustines, G.G. (2013). ‘Dark Knight Returns’ Cover Art Goes for Sale. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Cancer Cell
Abbreviation	Cancer Cell
ISSN (print)	1535-6108
ISSN (online)	1878-3686
Scope	Cancer Research Cell Biology Oncology