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

Palme H. Planetary science. A new solar system basalt. Science 2002; 296: 271–273.

A journal article with 2 authors

Metz M, Fütterer J. Biodiversity (Communications arising): suspect evidence of transgenic contamination. Nature 2002; 416: 600–1; discussion 600, 602.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee I-H, Shin S, Choi T-L. Materials science. Building supermicelles from simple polymers. Science 2015; 347: 1310–1311.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Richman DD, Margolis DM, Delaney M, Greene WC, Hazuda D, Pomerantz RJ. The challenge of finding a cure for HIV infection. Science 2009; 323: 1304–1307.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mead JM, Gruneberg S. Programme Procurement in Construction. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 2013.

An edited book

Yüksel Mermod A, O.Idowu S (eds.). Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Business World. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Wegner LH. Interplay of Water and Nutrient Transport: A Whole-Plant Perspective. In: Lüttge U, Beyschlag W (eds). Progress in Botany: Vol. 76. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015, pp 109–141.

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

Fang J. Researchers Discover Off Switch for Ageing Cells. IFLScience. 2014.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-discover-switch-old-cells/ (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. Administration of the Science Education Project ‘Man: A Course of Study’(MACOS). U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Koonin LM. Acceptability of pharmacies serving as primary dispensers of antiviral drugs during an influenza pandemic: Perspectives of pharmacy executives. 2013.

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

Kelly S. Op-Art. New York Times. 2000; : A27.

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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