How to format your references using the Cell Calcium citation style

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

[1]

W.M. Shih, Materials Science. Exploiting weak interactions in DNA self-assembly, Science 347 (2015) 1417–1418.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Altshuler, A.G. Clark, Genetics. Harvesting medical information from the human family tree, Science 307 (2005) 1052–1053.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C.Y. He, M. Pypaert, G. Warren, Golgi duplication in Trypanosoma brucei requires Centrin2, Science 310 (2005) 1196–1198.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Z.Y. Li, N.P. Young, M. Di Vece, S. Palomba, R.E. Palmer, A.L. Bleloch, B.C. Curley, R.L. Johnston, J. Jiang, J. Yuan, Three-dimensional atomic-scale structure of size-selected gold nanoclusters, Nature 451 (2008) 46–48.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.F. Garton, Exploring Cognitive Development: The Child as Problem Solver, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

P. van Oosterom, S. Zlatanova, E.M. Fendel, eds., Geo-information for Disaster Management, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T.M. Derwing, H. Fraser, O. Kang, R.I. Thomson, L2 Accent and Ethics: Issues that Merit Attention, in: A. Mahboob, L. Barratt (Eds.), Englishes in Multilingual Contexts: Language Variation and Education, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014: pp. 63–80.

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 Calcium.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, New Handheld Probe Detects Cancer Invaders in the Brain, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/new-handheld-probe-detects-cancer-invaders-brain/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, D.C. Nonappropriated Revenue, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G. Abedin, Exploring the potential of art-based education for adolescents with learning disabilities: A case study of engagement in learning through the arts, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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

[1]

K. Kelly, Trump Adviser’s $285 Million Exit Pay Questioned as to Possible Goldman Influence, New York Times (2017) A19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Cell Calcium
Abbreviation	Cell Calcium
ISSN (print)	0143-4160
Scope	Cell Biology Molecular Biology Physiology