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

Tal A. Seeking sustainability: Israel’s evolving water management strategy. Science. 2006 Aug 25;313(5790):1081–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sikes JM, Newmark PA. Restoration of anterior regeneration in a planarian with limited regenerative ability. Nature. 2013 Aug 1;500(7460):77–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu G-Z, Radtke G, Botton GA. Bonding and structure of a reconstructed (001) surface of SrTiO3 from TEM. Nature. 2012 Oct 18;490(7420):384–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Grammatikopoulos P, Cassidy C, Singh V, Sowwan M. Coalescence-induced crystallisation wave in Pd nanoparticles. Sci. Rep. 2014 Jul 22;4:5779.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bojowald M. The Universe: A View from Classical and Quantum Gravity. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

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

A chapter in an edited book

Crivellaro A, Schweingruber FH. Identification keys. In: Schweingruber FH, editor. Atlas of Wood, Bark and Pith Anatomy of Eastern Mediterranean Trees and Shrubs: with a Special Focus on Cyprus. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 37–47.

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 E. LightSail’s Solar Sail Has Been Deployed [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/solar-sail-lightsail-has-been-deployed/

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. Commuter Rail Service in Wisconsin and Illinois. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Dec. Report No.: RCED-97-29R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chamberlain AD. Policy and Behavior: Essays in Applied Microeconomics [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 2014.

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

Brantley B. Shakespeare’s Take on the Game of Thrones. New York Times. 2016 Nov 4;C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tal 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Sikes and Newmark 2013; Tal 2006).

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

Two authors: (Sikes and Newmark 2013)
Three or more authors: (Grammatikopoulos et al. 2014)

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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