How to format your references using the Cell Division citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cell Division. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Check E. Biologists seek blueprint for international stem-cell effort. Nature. 2003;421:102.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Chase MW, Fay MF. Ecology. Barcoding of plants and fungi. Science. 2009;325:682–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Storey M, Duncan RA, Swisher CC 3rd. Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and the opening of the Northeast Atlantic. Science. 2007;316:587–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Amrani N, Ghosh S, Mangus DA, Jacobson A. Translation factors promote the formation of two states of the closed-loop mRNP. Nature. 2008;453:1276–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Püschl W. Physik des Segelns. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

1. Xu C, Shi Q, editors. Structure and Modeling of Complex Petroleum Mixtures. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Alexander DC. An Introduction to Computational Diffusion MRI: the Diffusion Tensor and Beyond. In: Weickert J, Hagen H, editors. Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 83–106.

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 Division.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Nitrogen-Fed Bacteria Could Power Our Future. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Maritime Administration’s Satellite Communications Program: Is It Still Needed? Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 Oct. Report No.: LCD-77-107.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Emmerling-Baker D. A Qualitative Interpretive Phenomenological Study of K5 Teacher Perceptions of Classroom Empathy Instruction [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 2017.

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

1. Poniewozik J. Just What the Candidate Ordered. New York Times. 2016 Sep 15;A16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Division
Abbreviation	Cell Div.
ISSN (online)	1747-1028
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Molecular Biology