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

Strober W (2006) Immunology. Unraveling gut inflammation. Science 313:1052–1054

A journal article with 2 authors

Kirch PV, Sharp WD (2005) Coral 230Th dating of the imposition of a ritual control hierarchy in precontact Hawaii. Science 307:102–104

A journal article with 3 authors

Li C, Zhou A, Sang T (2006) Rice domestication by reducing shattering. Science 311:1936–1939

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kangas AT, Evans AR, Thesleff I, Jernvall J (2004) Nonindependence of mammalian dental characters. Nature 432:211–214

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lieberman JA, Tasman A (2006) Handbook of Psychiatric Drugs. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Hirose A, Ozawa S, Doya K, et al (eds) (2016) Neural Information Processing: 23rd International Conference, ICONIP 2016, Kyoto, Japan, October 16–21, 2016, Proceedings, Part I. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Kang R, Tang D (2016) What Is the Pathobiology of Inflammation to Cell Death? Apoptosis, Necrosis, Necroptosis, Autophagic Cell Death, Pyroptosis, and NETosis. In: Maiuri MC, De Stefano D (eds) Autophagy Networks in Inflammation. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 81–106

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 (2015) Solar Fuels: How Planes And Cars Could Be Powered By The Sun. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/solar-fuels-how-planes-and-cars-could-be-powered-sun/. 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 (2013) Preliminary Results of Work on FAA Facility Conditions and Workplace Safety. 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

Swenson MD (2012) Second generation Latinos and the perceived barriers to college enrollment. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Gorman J (2016) Sciencetake: Misguided Leaders Don’t Lead Pigeons Off Course. New York Times D2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Strober 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Kirch and Sharp 2005; Strober 2006).

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

Two authors: (Kirch and Sharp 2005)
Three or more authors: (Kangas et al. 2004)

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