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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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. Bell LE. Cooling, heating, generating power, and recovering waste heat with thermoelectric systems. Science. 2008;321:1457–61.
A journal article with 2 authors
1. Shin D, Cho K-H. Recurrent connections form a phase-locking neuronal tuner for frequency-dependent selective communication. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2519.
A journal article with 3 authors
1. Osborne LC, Lisberger SG, Bialek W. A sensory source for motor variation. Nature. 2005;437:412–6.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
1. Rauschhuber C, Mueck-Haeusl M, Zhang W, Nettelbeck DM, Ehrhardt A. RNAi suppressor P19 can be broadly exploited for enhanced adenovirus replication and microRNA knockdown experiments. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1363.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
1. Liu J, Dong X, Chen X, Tong X, Zhang X, Xu S. Fault Location and Service Restoration for Electrical Distribution Systems. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2016.
An edited book
1. Povh B. Particles and Nuclei: An Introduction to the Physical Concepts. Fifth Edition. Rith K, Scholz C, Zetsche F, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.
A chapter in an edited book
1. Swami R, Kumar D, Khan W, Sistla R, Shastri N. Polymer–Drug Conjugate in Focal Drug Delivery. In: Domb AJ, Khan W, editors. Focal Controlled Drug Delivery. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2014. p. 117–47.

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. What Did Mars Look Like When It Had Water? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2013 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-did-mars-look-when-it-had-water/

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. Federal Research: Concerns About Developing and Producing Magnets for the Superconducting Super Collider. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 May. Report No.: T-RCED-91-51.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
1. Bentley KJ. Modern Public Market to Revitalize a Small Community [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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
1. Mueller B, Baker AL. Death, Mistrust and Too Few Officers. New York Times. 2016 Dec 31;A1.

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 titleCell Division
AbbreviationCell Div.
ISSN (online)1747-1028
ScopeBiochemistry
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology

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