How to format your references using the Cell Death and Disease citation style

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

Starr DA. Cell biology. Nuclei get TAN lines. Science 2010; 329: 909–910.

A journal article with 2 authors

Phair RD, Misteli T. High mobility of proteins in the mammalian cell nucleus. Nature 2000; 404: 604–609.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rocha PP, Chaumeil J, Skok JA. Molecular biology. Finding the right partner in a 3D genome. Science 2013; 342: 1333–1334.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Brody DL, Magnoni S, Schwetye KE, Spinner ML, Esparza TJ, Stocchetti N et al. Amyloid-beta dynamics correlate with neurological status in the injured human brain. Science 2008; 321: 1221–1224.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Permyakov EA, Kretsinger RH. Calcium Binding Proteins. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

Wu W, Yu H-S (eds.). Modern Trends in Geomechanics. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Schanzenberger A, Lawrence DR, Kirsche T. Enhancing Project Management for Periodic Data Production Management. In: Meersman R, Tari Z, Herrero P (eds). On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: OTM 2005 Workshops: OTM Confederated Internationl Workshops and Posters, AWeSOMe, CAMS, GADA, MIOS+INTEROP, ORM, PhDS, SeBGIS, SWWS, and WOSE 2005, Agia Napa, Cyprus, October 31 - November 4, 2005. Proceedings. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005, pp 9–11.

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 Death and Disease.

Blog post

Luntz S. Scientists Translate Monkey Sounds To English. IFLScience. 2014.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/monkey-dialects-revealed/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Space Acquisitions: DOD Delivering New Generations of Satellites, but Space System Acquisition Challenges Remain. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Garcia M. College preparedness program for high school students in South Los Angeles, California: A grant proposal. 2015.

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: 10 Tons Of Cold Ones. New York Times. 2004; : A12.

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 Death and Disease
Abbreviation	Cell Death Dis.
ISSN (online)	2041-4889
Scope	Cancer Research Cell Biology Immunology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience