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

Szyszka P. Ecology. Follow the odor. Science 2014; 344:1454.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yuan J, Poulin P. Materials science. Fibers do the twist. Science 2014; 343:845–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mignot T, Merlie JP Jr, Zusman DR. Regulated pole-to-pole oscillations of a bacterial gliding motility protein. Science 2005; 310:855–7.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Smakowska-Luzan E, Mott GA, Parys K, Stegmann M, Howton TC, Layeghifard M, Neuhold J, Lehner A, Kong J, Grünwald K, et al. An extracellular network of Arabidopsis leucine-rich repeat receptor kinases. Nature 2018; 553:342–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dasgupta A. Resolving Erroneous Reports in Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Smagghe G, editor. Ecdysone: Structures and Functions. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Yeaman MR, Bayer AS. Antimicrobial Peptides Versus Invasive Infections. In: Shafer WM, editor. Antimicrobial Peptides and Human Disease. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. page 111–52.

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. Bill Gates Leads Team Of Billionaires To Fund Companies Tackling Climate Change. IFLScience2016;

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. Information Technology: Architecture Needed to Guide NASA’s Financial Management Modernization. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yalof B. Marshaling Resources: A Classic Grounded Theory Study of Online Learners. 2012;

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

Kishkovsky S. Slow Down and Hide Your Wallet: Traffic Police Ahead. New York Times2006; :A4.

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