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 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

Benton, M.J. (2009). The Red Queen and the Court Jester: species diversity and the role of biotic and abiotic factors through time. Science 323, 728–732.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fernández-Martínez, L.T., and Bibb, M.J. (2014). Use of the meganuclease I-SceI of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to select for gene deletions in actinomycetes. Sci. Rep. 4, 7100.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yudkovsky, N., Ranish, J.A., and Hahn, S. (2000). A transcription reinitiation intermediate that is stabilized by activator. Nature 408, 225–229.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Thompson, R.C., Olsen, Y., Mitchell, R.P., Davis, A., Rowland, S.J., John, A.W.G., McGonigle, D., and Russell, A.E. (2004). Lost at sea: where is all the plastic? Science 304, 838.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schneider, H.J. (2013). Wittgenstein’s Later Theory of Meaning (John Wiley & Sons Inc.).

An edited book

Houlsby, G.T. (2007). Principles of Hyperplasticity: An Approach to Plasticity Theory Based on Thermodynamic Principles A. M. Puzrin, ed. (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Sánchez-Anguix, V., Esparcia, S., Argente, E., García-Fornes, A., and Julián, V. (2010). Collaborative Information Extraction for Adaptive Recommendations in a Multiagent Tourism Recommender System. In Advances in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems: 8th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems (PAAMS 2010) Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing., Y. Demazeau, F. Dignum, J. M. Corchado, and J. B. Pérez, eds. (Springer), pp. 35–40.

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

Andrew, E. (2015). British Man Receives Bionic Eye Implant. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/british-man-receives-bionic-eye-implant-treat-age-related-sight-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

Government Accountability Office (2001). Internal Control Management and Evaluation Tool: Exposure Draft (Superseded by GAO-01-1008G) (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

Skiold-Hanlin, S. (2015). Functional and Ecological Aspects of the Mucus Trails of the Freshwater Gastropod Elimia potosiensis.

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

Dinardo, K. (2015). What Tim Cope Learned from the Nomads. New York Times, TR3.

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