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

Hipps, K.W. (2001). Molecular electronics. It’s all about contacts. Science 294, 536–537.

A journal article with 2 authors

Karklin, Y., and Lewicki, M.S. (2009). Emergence of complex cell properties by learning to generalize in natural scenes. Nature 457, 83–86.

A journal article with 3 authors

Abelson, M., Baer, G., and Agnon, A. (2001). Evidence from gabbro of the Troodos ophiolite for lateral magma transport along a slow-spreading mid-ocean ridge. Nature 409, 72–75.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Borducchi, E.N., Liu, J., Nkolola, J.P., Cadena, A.M., Yu, W.-H., Fischinger, S., Broge, T., Abbink, P., Mercado, N.B., Chandrashekar, A., et al. (2018). Antibody and TLR7 agonist delay viral rebound in SHIV-infected monkeys. Nature 563, 360–364.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bernstein, L., and Yuhas, C.M. (2005). Trustworthy Systems through Quantitative Software Engineering (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Taylor, G.K., Triantafyllou, M.S., and Tropea, C. eds. (2010). Animal Locomotion (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Miranda, A.I., and Douglas, S. (2010). Aerosols in the atmosphere. In Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XX NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security., D. G. Steyn and S. T. Rao, eds. (Springer Netherlands), pp. 427–478.

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

Andrew, E. (2014). Study Finds Gamers Are Better Learners. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/study-finds-action-gamers-are-better-learners/.

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 (1995). School Safety: Promising Initiatives for Addressing School Violence (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

Wilson, B.R. (2009). A correlational study: Parental involvement to student achievement in public education.

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

Gustines, G.G. (2015). DC and Marvel, Beware: Valiant Is to Make Films. New York Times, C3.

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