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. Ledford H. Taxi-cab teaching. Nature. 2007;445:678–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lieberman RL, Rosenzweig AC. Crystal structure of a membrane-bound metalloenzyme that catalyses the biological oxidation of methane. Nature. 2005;434:177–82.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Collins SH, Wiggin MB, Sawicki GS. Reducing the energy cost of human walking using an unpowered exoskeleton. Nature. 2015;522:212–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Nardi F, Spinsanti G, Boore JL, Carapelli A, Dallai R, Frati F. Hexapod origins: monophyletic or paraphyletic? Science. 2003;299:1887–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Guillaume P. Music and Acoustics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2006.

An edited book

1. Chowdhry BS, Shaikh FK, Hussain DMA, Uqaili MA, editors. Emerging Trends and Applications in Information Communication Technologies: Second International Multi Topic Conference, IMTIC 2012, Jamshoro, Pakistan, March 28-30, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Buechler H. “Interconnected Positionalities”: Foreigners and Foreign Experience in the Lives of Aymara Intellectuals. In: Nash JC, Buechler HC, editors. Ethnographic Collaborations in Latin America: The Effects of Globalization. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016. p. 89–110.

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. Progress on Gene Therapy for Motor Neurone Disease [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/progress-gene-therapy-motor-neurone-disease/

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. [Comments on DOT Authority To Requisition Vessels]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Apr. Report No.: B-229258.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Beyer PD. Authentic Leadership in-extremis: A study of combat leadership [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2010.

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. Prochnik G. Days of Observance. New York Times. 2015 Sep 6;BR16.

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