How to format your references using the Cell Chemical Biology citation style

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

Cerf, V.G. (2009). The day the Internet age began. Nature 461, 1202–1203.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jones, A.G., and Ferguson, I.J. (2001). The electric Moho. Nature 409, 331–333.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shelly, D.R., Beroza, G.C., and Ide, S. (2007). Non-volcanic tremor and low-frequency earthquake swarms. Nature 446, 305–307.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Luo, M., Li, Z.-Z., Li, Y.-Y., Chen, L.-Z., Yan, S.-P., Chen, P., and Hu, Y.-Y. (2014). Relationship between red cell distribution width and serum uric acid in patients with untreated essential hypertension. Sci. Rep. 4, 7291.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weller, R.B., Hunter, H.J.A., and Mann, M.W. (2014). Clinical Dermatology (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd).

An edited book

Pâques, L.E. ed. (2013). Forest Tree Breeding in Europe: Current State-of-the-Art and Perspectives (Springer Netherlands).

A chapter in an edited book

Kahanec, M., and Zimmermann, K.F. (2010). Migration in an Enlarged EU: A Challenging Solution? In Five Years of an Enlarged EU: A Positive Sum Game, F. Keereman and I. Szekely, eds. (Springer), pp. 63–94.

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 Chemical Biology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016). The Quest For The World’s Hottest Chilli. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-quest-for-the-worlds-hottest-chilli/.

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 (1982). A Summary of the Legislative Provisions of the Block Grants Created by the 1981 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gambini, F. (2011). Leadership capacity for succession and sustainability in a family-owned private school.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017). A Watershed Moment of Cinematic Terror. New York Times, C9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Cell Chemical Biology
Abbreviation	Cell Chem. Biol.
ISSN (online)	2451-9456
Scope	Biochemistry Clinical Biochemistry Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine Drug Discovery Pharmacology