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. Ray LB. Cell signaling. Getting your loops straight. Introduction. Science. 2008;322:389.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ding H-M, Ma Y-Q. Controlling cellular uptake of nanoparticles with pH-sensitive polymers. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2804.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Abramson J, Paz A, Philipson KD. Structural biology. It’s all in the symmetry. Science. 2012;335:669–70.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hartig G, Churakov G, Warren WC, Brosius J, Makałowski W, Schmitz J. Retrophylogenomics place tarsiers on the evolutionary branch of anthropoids. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1756.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Wildi O. Data Analysis in Vegetation Ecology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

1. Smeyers P, Depaepe M, editors. Educational Research - the Ethics and Aesthetics of Statistics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Volchkov VV, Volchkov VV. Non-Euclidean Analogues of Plane Waves. In: Volchkov VV, editor. Harmonic Analysis of Mean Periodic Functions on Symmetric Spaces and the Heisenberg Group. London: Springer; 2009. p. 135–52.

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. Andrew E. Why one hectare of rainforest grows more tree species than US and Canada combined [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-one-hectare-rainforest-grows-more-tree-species-us-and-canada-combined/

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. Applicability of Service Contract Act to Service Employees of ADP and High-Technology Companies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980 Nov. Report No.: 113769.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Tsai C-N. A simulation study of hierarchical wireless sensor networks [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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. Mueller B, Rashbaum WK. Before Times Sq. Crash, A String of Legal Issues And a Fall Into Paranoia. New York Times. 2017 May 19;A21.

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