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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cell and Tissue Research. 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

Smoot GF (2010) Thinking in aeons. Nature 467:S12

A journal article with 2 authors

Shaked Y, Rose A (2013) Microbiology. Seas of superoxide. Science 340:1176–1177

A journal article with 3 authors

Swiontek SE, Pulsifer DP, Lakhtakia A (2013) Optical sensing of analytes in aqueous solutions with a multiple surface-plasmon-polariton-wave platform. Sci Rep 3:1409

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Linnen CR, Kingsley EP, Jensen JD, Hoekstra HE (2009) On the origin and spread of an adaptive allele in deer mice. Science 325:1095–1098

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Giannini F, Leuzzi G (2005) Nonlinear Microwave Circuit Design. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Lai X, Yung M, Lin D (eds) (2011) Information Security and Cryptology: 6th International Conference, Inscrypt 2010, Shanghai, China, October 20-24, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Wang J-Q, Zhang C-W, Fan G-Q, Sun S-D (2015) Heuristics for Non-dominated Sets of Two-Agent Scheduling on a Single Parallel-Batching Machine. In: Bajo J, Hallenborg K, Pawlewski P, et al. (eds) Highlights of Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Sustainability - The PAAMS Collection: International Workshops of PAAMS 2015, Salamanca, Spain, June 3-4, 2015. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 55–68

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 Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Gamers More Likely To Be Social, Educated Than Non-Gamers. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/gamers-more-likely-be-social-educated-non-gamers/. 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 (2015) Unmanned Aerial Systems: Status of Test Sites and International Developments. 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

Schroeder SK (2017) Tau-Directed Immunotherapy for Alzheimer’s Disease. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Branch J (2017) Kaepernick’s Conscience. New York Times SP1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smoot 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Smoot 2010; Shaked and Rose 2013).

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

Two authors: (Shaked and Rose 2013)
Three or more authors: (Linnen et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cell and Tissue Research
Abbreviation	Cell Tissue Res.
ISSN (print)	0302-766X
ISSN (online)	1432-0878
Scope	Cell Biology Histology Pathology and Forensic Medicine