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

Anheier NC. Nanotechnology: Colourful particles for spectrometry. Nature 2015; 523:39–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Audet P, Bürgmann R. Possible control of subduction zone slow-earthquake periodicity by silica enrichment. Nature 2014; 510:389–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiao Y, Jiang J, Huang H. Chemical dechlorination of hexachlorobenzene with polyethylene glycol and hydroxide: dominant effect of temperature and ionic potential. Sci Rep 2014; 4:6305.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Janvier P, Desbiens S, Willett JA, Arsenault M. Lamprey-like gills in a gnathostome-related Devonian jawless vertebrate. Nature 2006; 440:1183–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coenen T. Essentials of Corporate Fraud. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Bagnard D, editor. Axon Growth and Guidance. New York, NY: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Rovira-Esteva M, Pardo LC, Tamarit JLL, Bermejo FJ. Neutron Diffraction as a Tool to Explore the Free Energy Landscape in Orientationally Disordered Phases. In: Rzoska S, Drozd-Rzoska A, Mazur V, editors. Metastable Systems under Pressure. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. page 63–77.

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

Andrew E. With Encyclical, Pope Francis Elevates Environmental Justice [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/encyclical-pope-francis-elevates-environmental-justice/

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. Diffusing Innovations: Implementing the Technology Transfer Act of 1986. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Razo SI. Parenting practices of Latina mothers and children’s behavior outcomes. 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

Vecsey G. Reprieve Of Sorts In a Costly Blunder. New York Times2011; :B13.

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