How to format your references using the Cell Metabolism citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cell Metabolism. 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	Download the output style file
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

Brumfiel, G. (2002). China ponders joining fusion project. Nature 419, 545.

A journal article with 2 authors

Valsami-Jones, E., and Lynch, I. (2015). NANOSAFETY. How safe are nanomaterials? Science 350, 388–389.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, S., Zhang, Y.E., and Long, M. (2010). New genes in Drosophila quickly become essential. Science 330, 1682–1685.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Paludan, C., Schmid, D., Landthaler, M., Vockerodt, M., Kube, D., Tuschl, T., and Münz, C. (2005). Endogenous MHC class II processing of a viral nuclear antigen after autophagy. Science 307, 593–596.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anichini, G., Carraro, F., Geslin, P., and Guille-Escuret, G. (2017). Technicity vs Scientificity (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Arabnia, H.R. ed. (2010). Advances in Computational Biology (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Pallas, F. (2016). Haier: A Case Study on How One of China’s First Global Brands Keeps Expanding. In Multinational Management: A Casebook on Asia’s Global Market Leaders, R. T. Segers, ed. (Springer International Publishing), pp. 55–74.

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 Metabolism.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016). Scientists Have Figured Out What Caused The “Alien Radio Signal” Coming From A Distant Exoplanet. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/alien-radio-signal-distant-exoplanet-caused-planet-wide-lightning-storm/.

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 (2015). Women in STEM Research: Federal Agencies Differ in the Data They Collect on Grant Applicants (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

Romer, C. (2017). WhatsUpDoc: A Patient Portal Technology.

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

Billard, M. (2010). Check In /Check Out; MIAMI BEACH, FLA.: Soho Beach House. New York Times, TR4.

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 Metabolism
Abbreviation	Cell Metab.
ISSN (print)	1550-4131
ISSN (online)	1932-7420
Scope	Cell Biology Molecular Biology Physiology