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

Boyd RW. Physics. Let quantum mechanics improve your images. Science 2008; 321: 501–502.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bilham R, England P. Plateau ‘pop-up’ in the great 1897 Assam earthquake. Nature 2001; 410: 806–809.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shah AK, Mullainathan S, Shafir E. Some consequences of having too little. Science 2012; 338: 682–685.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Blankenship RE, Tiede DM, Barber J, Brudvig GW, Fleming G, Ghirardi M et al. Comparing photosynthetic and photovoltaic efficiencies and recognizing the potential for improvement. Science 2011; 332: 805–809.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reinhardt H-W. Ingenieurbaustoffe. Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG: Berlin, Germany, 2010.

An edited book

Fouilhoux P, Gouveia LEN, Mahjoub AR, Paschos VT (eds.). Combinatorial Optimization: Third International Symposium, ISCO 2014, Lisbon, Portugal, March 5-7, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Ventegodt S, Flensborg-Madsen T, Andersen NJ, Nielsen M, Mohammed M, Merrick J. Global Quality of Life (QOL), Health and Ability Are Primarily Determined by Our Consciousness. Research Findings from Denmark 1991–2004. In: Shek DTL, Chan YK, Lee PSN (eds). Quality-of-Life Research in Chinese, Western and Global Contexts. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2005, pp 87–122.

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

Andrew E. Elevated ‘Male Hormones’ During Fetal Development Linked With Autism. IFLScience. 2014.https://www.iflscience.com/brain/elevated-‘male-hormones’-during-fetal-development-linked-autism/ (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. Regulatory Flexibility in Schools: What Happens When Schools Are Allowed to Change the Rules? U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chandwasker T. Comparison of ad-hoc on demand distance vector and enhanced-ad-hoc on demand distance vector on vehicular ad-hoc networks. 2016.

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

Dobbins J. Making a Living on Airbnb. New York Times. 2017; : RE1.

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