How to format your references using the Cell Regeneration citation style

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

McFiggans G. Atmospheric science: Involatile particles from rapid oxidation. Nature. 2014;506(7489):442-443.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gray GM, Cohen JT. Policy: Rethink chemical risk assessments. Nature. 2012;489(7414):27-28.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shim JH, Haule K, Kotliar G. Modeling the localized-to-itinerant electronic transition in the heavy fermion system CeIrIn5. Science. 2007;318(5856):1615-1617.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rose GJ, Goller F, Gritton HJ, Plamondon SL, Baugh AT, Cooper BG. Species-typical songs in white-crowned sparrows tutored with only phrase pairs. Nature. 2004;432(7018):753-758.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Box GEP, Luceño A, Paniagua-Quiñones MDC. Statistical Control by Monitoring and Adjustment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Gruhn RE. Statistical Pronunciation Modeling for Non-Native Speech Processing. (Minker W, Nakamura S, eds.). Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Conrad K. Irreducible Values of Polynomials: A Non-Analogy. In: Geer G van der, Moonen B, Schoof R, eds. Number Fields and Function Fields—Two Parallel Worlds. Birkhäuser; 2005:71-85.

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 Regeneration.

Blog post

Andrew E. Brain-To-Brain Interfaces: The Science Of Telepathy. IFLScience. March 10, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brain-brain-interfaces-science-telepathy/

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. NASA Procurement: Use of Award Fees for Achieving Program Outcomes Should Be Improved. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lin HC. Depression Screening in Ambulatory Care. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Wagner J. Indians Open Wallet After Coming Up Short. New York Times. December 24, 2016:D5.

In-text citations

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

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 Regeneration
Abbreviation	Cell Regen. (Lond.)
ISSN (print)	2045-9769
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