How to format your references using the Cell Cycle citation style

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

Rochmyaningsih D. Indigenous peoples must benefit from science. Nature 2015; 526:477.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shizgal P, Arvanitogiannis A. Neuroscience. Gambling on dopamine. Science 2003; 299:1856–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Canestrelli D, Bisconti R, Nascetti G. Extensive unidirectional introgression between two salamander lineages of ancient divergence and its evolutionary implications. Sci Rep 2014; 4:6516.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Karhadkar SS, Bova GS, Abdallah N, Dhara S, Gardner D, Maitra A, Isaacs JT, Berman DM, Beachy PA. Hedgehog signalling in prostate regeneration, neoplasia and metastasis. Nature 2004; 431:707–12.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thiselton AC. 1 & 2 Thessalonians: Through the Centuries. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Krische MJ, editor. Metal Catalyzed Reductive C–C Bond Formation: A Departure from Preformed Organometallic Reagents. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Gyurkó LG, Lyons TJ. Efficient and Practical Implementations of Cubature on Wiener Space. In: Crisan D, editor. Stochastic Analysis 2010. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. page 73–111.

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 Cycle.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. We Now Sort Of Know Why SpaceX’s Rocket Exploded [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/we-now-sort-of-know-why-spacexs-rocket-exploded/

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. Rural Broadband Deployment: Improved Consistency with Leading Practices Could Enhance Management of Loan and Grant Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mitchell SF. Life-review therapy: A prevention program for the elderly who are experiencing life transitions. A grant proposal. 2009;

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

Markoff J. Robert Taylor, 85, Who Helped Create the Internet, Dies. New York Times2017; :A1.

In-text citations

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

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 Cycle
Abbreviation	Cell Cycle
ISSN (print)	1538-4101
ISSN (online)	1551-4005
Scope	Cell Biology Developmental Biology Molecular Biology