How to format your references using the Cell Biology and Toxicology citation style

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

Javanainen J. Physics. Bose-Einstein condensates interfere and survive. Science. 2005 Mar 25;307(5717):1883–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lavik E, Ustin J. Medicine. Leveraging shear stress to bust clots with nanoparticles. Science. 2012 Aug 10;337(6095):658–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ferguson NM, Donnelly CA, Anderson RM. Transmission intensity and impact of control policies on the foot and mouth epidemic in Great Britain. Nature. 2001 Oct 4;413(6855):542–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hansen PL, Wagner JB, Helveg S, Rostrup-Nielsen JR, Clausen BS, Topsøe H. Atom-resolved imaging of dynamic shape changes in supported copper nanocrystals. Science. 2002 Mar 15;295(5562):2053–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berthou P, Baudoin C, Gayraud T, Gineste M. Satellite and Terrestrial Hybrid Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

Dumas M, Reichert M, Shan M-C, editors. Business Process Management: 6th International Conference, BPM 2008, Milan, Italy, September 2-4, 2008. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Cauduro A, Nicola AD, Fonio C, Nuvoloni A, Ruspini P. Innocent When You Dream Clients and Trafficked Women in Italy. In: Nicola AD, Cauduro A, Lombardi M, Ruspini P, editors. Prostitution and Human Trafficking: Focus on Clients. New York, NY: Springer; 2009. p. 31–66.

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 Biology and Toxicology.

Blog post

Andrew D. Disney Princesses Reimagined As Dinosaurs [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dinosaurs-dresses/

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. Earth Observing System: Cost and Research Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Mar. Report No.: T-NSIAD-96-116.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nasrollahzadeh Y. Support group for caregivers of older adults affected by dementia: A grant proposal project [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Kelly M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: In His Own Words; On TV, a Very Public Education for Ross Perot. New York Times. 1992 Jun 4;A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Javanainen 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Javanainen 2005; Lavik and Ustin 2012).

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

Two authors: (Lavik and Ustin 2012)
Three or more authors: (Hansen et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cell Biology and Toxicology
Abbreviation	Cell Biol. Toxicol.
ISSN (print)	0742-2091
ISSN (online)	1573-6822
Scope	Cell Biology Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Toxicology

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