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

Stern P (2012) Depression. Defeating the dementors. Introduction. Science 338:67

A journal article with 2 authors

MacCoss M, Baillie TA (2004) Organic chemistry in drug discovery. Science 303:1810–1813

A journal article with 3 authors

Yaguchi S, Yaguchi J, Inaba K (2014) bicaudal-C is required for the formation of anterior neurogenic ectoderm in the sea urchin embryo. Sci Rep 4:6852

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pedersen TH, Nielsen OB, Lamb GD, Stephenson DG (2004) Intracellular acidosis enhances the excitability of working muscle. Science 305:1144–1147

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Linder B (2004) Thermodynamics and Introductory Statistical Mechanics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Reed N, Green JA, Gershenson DM, et al (eds) (2011) Rare and Uncommon Gynecological Cancers: A Clinical Guide. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Golovin AA (2010) Interfacial Phenomena in Materials Science. In: Colinet P, Nepomnyashchy A (eds) Pattern Formation at Interfaces. Springer, Vienna, pp 219–253

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) Asteroids Might Have Delivered Water To Earth. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/asteroids-might-have-delivered-water-earth/. 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 (2007) NASA: Progress Made on Strategic Human Capital Management, but Future Program Challenges Remain. 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

Richardson VM (2013) In vitro thyroid hormone metabolism: Effects of nuclear receptor activation on the metabolic profiles of thyroxine in rat and human hepatocytes. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

La GORCE T (2017) He Arrived as Reba McEntire. That Seemed to Work. New York Times ST13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stern 2012).
This sentence cites two references (MacCoss and Baillie 2004; Stern 2012).

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

Two authors: (MacCoss and Baillie 2004)
Three or more authors: (Pedersen 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