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

Cane DE. Biochemistry: favouring the unfavoured. Nature 2012; 483: 285–286.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tarasov L, Peltier WR. Arctic freshwater forcing of the Younger Dryas cold reversal. Nature 2005; 435: 662–665.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wiedenheft B, Sternberg SH, Doudna JA. RNA-guided genetic silencing systems in bacteria and archaea. Nature 2012; 482: 331–338.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lee JE, Fusco ML, Hessell AJ, Oswald WB, Burton DR, Saphire EO. Structure of the Ebola virus glycoprotein bound to an antibody from a human survivor. Nature 2008; 454: 177–182.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shore SN. The Tapestry of Modern Astrophysics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

Kurosu M (ed.). Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services: 15th International Conference, HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part II. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Tsumoto S, Abe H. Evaluation of a Classification Rule Mining Algorithm Based on Secondary Differences. In: Velásquez JD, Ríos SA, Howlett RJ, Jain LC (eds). Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 13th International Conference, KES 2009, Santiago, Chile, September 28-30, 2009, Proceedings, Part II. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009, pp 24–31.

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

Hamilton K. How Authentic Are Photographic Memories? IFLScience. 2017.https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-authentic-are-photographic-memories/ (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. ADP Budget: Analysis of HCFA’s Fiscal Year 1991 ADP Budget Request. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Martinez JC. Theoretically tested remediation in response to insect resistance to Bt corn and Bt cotton: A new paradigm. 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

Walsh MW. Puerto Rico Development Bank Goes to Court for $400 Million in Taxes. New York Times. 2015; : B5.

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

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