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

Lewin HA. Genetics. It’s a bull’s market. Science 2009; 324:478–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jaramillo F, Destouni G. Local flow regulation and irrigation raise global human water consumption and footprint. Science 2015; 350:1248–51.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang J-T, Chen C, Kawazoe Y. New carbon allotropes with helical chains of complementary chirality connected by ethene-type π-conjugation. Sci Rep 2013; 3:3077.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Curran MAJ, van Ommen TD, Morgan VI, Phillips KL, Palmer AS. Ice core evidence for Antarctic sea ice decline since the 1950s. Science 2003; 302:1203–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ming D, Glasser D, Hildebrandt D, Glasser B, Metzer M. Attainable Region Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Cheloukhine S. Russian Organized Corruption Networks and their International Trajectories. 1st ed. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Trezzi J-P, Vlassis N, Hiller K. The Role of Metabolomics in the Study of Cancer Biomarkers and in the Development of Diagnostic Tools. In: Scatena R, editor. Advances in Cancer Biomarkers: From biochemistry to clinic for a critical revision. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015. page 41–57.

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. Amazing Vine of Aurora Borealis As Seen By ISS [Internet]. IFLScience2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/amazing-vine-aurora-borealis-seen-iss/

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. Review of the Cardozo High School Band Summer Employment Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Harvey T. The Box. 2014;

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

St. John Kelly E. You Won’t Believe This, But Marcia Brady Is in Prada. New York Times2001; :G3.

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