How to format your references using the Cell and Tissue Banking citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cell and Tissue Banking. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Baker M (2010) Cellular imaging: Taking a long, hard look. Nature 466:1137–1140

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim W-Y, Snider WD (2008) Neuroscience. Overcoming inhibitions. Science 322:869–872

A journal article with 3 authors

Kuhlen M, Madau P, Silk J (2009) Exploring dark matter with Milky Way substructure. Science 325:970–973

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Stroebel D, Choquet Y, Popot J-L, Picot D (2003) An atypical haem in the cytochrome b(6)f complex. Nature 426:413–418

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lavi MR (2016) The Impact of IFRS on Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

McBurney P, Rahwan I, Parsons S (eds) (2011) Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: 7th International Workshop, ArgMAS 2010 Toronto, ON, Canada, May 10, 2010 Revised, Selected and Invited Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Arnaiz A, Iung B, Al-Najjar B, et al (2010) A New Integrated E-maintenance Concept. In: Holmberg K, Adgar A, Arnaiz A, et al. (eds) E-maintenance. Springer, London, pp 61–82

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 Cell and Tissue Banking.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Human Head Transplants Could Become A Reality By 2017. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/human-head-transplants-could-become-reality-2017/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2016) Air Traffic Control: Experts’ and Stakeholders’ Views on Key Issues to Consider in a Potential Restructuring [Reissued on December 9, 2016]. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yoon Y (2010) Nano-tribology of discrete track recording media. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Williams J (2016) Making, and Musing On, an Existential Classic. New York Times C22

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Baker 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Kim and Snider 2008; Baker 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Kim and Snider 2008)
Three or more authors: (Stroebel et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cell and Tissue Banking
Abbreviation	Cell Tissue Bank.
ISSN (print)	1389-9333
ISSN (online)	1573-6814
Scope	Cell Biology Biomedical Engineering Biomaterials Transplantation

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