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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. Ambros V. Development. Dicing up RNAs. Science. 2001;293:811–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lee MCS, Schekman R. Cell biology. BAR domains go on a bender. Science. 2004;303:479–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Runnels LW, Yue L, Clapham DE. TRP-PLIK, a bifunctional protein with kinase and ion channel activities. Science. 2001;291:1043–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Liu Z, Pagani M, Zinniker D, Deconto R, Huber M, Brinkhuis H, et al. Global cooling during the eocene-oligocene climate transition. Science. 2009;323:1187–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Stanley W, Pamela B. The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2017.

An edited book

1. Priol T, Vanneschi M, editors. Towards Next Generation Grids: Proceedings of the CoreGRID Symposium 2007. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Korthals M. Three Main Areas of Concern, Four Trends in Genomics and Existing Deficiencies in Academic Ethics. In: Korthals M, editor. Genomics, Obesity and the Struggle over Responsibilities. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011. p. 59–76.

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. Mysterious White Object Spotted On Ceres [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/hopes-dawn-will-explain-white-spot-ceres/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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. Mass Transit: FTA Could Relieve New Starts Program Funding Constraints. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001 Aug. Report No.: GAO-01-987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Lewis TL. Quantitative approach to technical performance measurement and technical risk analysis utilizing Bayesian methods and Monte Carlo simulation [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington 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. Chapman MM, Bosman J. Man Guilty of Murdering Woman at His Front Door. New York Times. 2014 Aug 8;A12.

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