How to format your references using the Cell Genomics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cell Genomics. 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

Sharon, M. (2013). Biochemistry. Structural MS pulls its weight. Science 340, 1059–1060.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brinker, C.J., and Clem, P.G. (2013). Materials science. Quartz on silicon. Science 340, 818–819.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hu, D.L., Chan, B., and Bush, J.W.M. (2003). The hydrodynamics of water strider locomotion. Nature 424, 663–666.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Jørgensen, H.F., Chen, Z.-F., Merkenschlager, M., and Fisher, A.G. (2009). Is REST required for ESC pluripotency? Nature 457, E4-5; discussion E7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson, R.J., Groundwater, P.W., Todd, A., and Worsley, A.J. (2012). Antibacterial Agents (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd).

An edited book

Andersen, P.K. (2010). Regression with Linear Predictors L. T. Skovgaard, ed. (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Eversmann, P., Ehret, P., Louter, C., and Santarsiero, M. (2015). Application of Hybrid Glass-Timber Elements in Architecture. In Advances in Architectural Geometry 2014, P. Block, J. Knippers, N. J. Mitra, and W. Wang, eds. (Springer International Publishing), pp. 47–59.

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 Genomics.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016). Glittery Feathers Found On 120-Million-Year Old Flying Dinosaur. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/glittery-feathers-found-120millionyearold-flying-dinosaur/.

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

Government Accountability Office (1999). Passenger Facility Charges: Program Implementation and the Potential Effects of Proposed Changes (U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tate, K.J. (2014). Utilizing Canines in a Public School Setting: A Case Study.

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

Sisario, B. (2016). Dylan and the Nobel: It Gets Weirder. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Cell Genomics
ISSN (online)	2666-979X
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