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

Tromans A. Cell biology. Asymmetry in action. Nature. 2001;411(6833):33.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shaye DD, Greenwald I. Endocytosis-mediated downregulation of LIN-12/Notch upon Ras activation in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature. 2002;420(6916):686-690.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burke M, Hsiang SM, Miguel E. Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production. Nature. 2015;527(7577):235-239.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang HP, Wu Y, Liu J, et al. TSP1-producing B cells show immune regulatory property and suppress allergy-related mucosal inflammation. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3345.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pike A. Origination. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Bacon D, Martin-Delgado M, Roetteler M, eds. Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication, and Cryptography: 6th Conference, TQC 2011, Madrid, Spain, May 24-26, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Vol 6745. Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Bagdoev AG, Vardanyan AV, Vardanyan SV. The Determination of Linear Frequencies of Bending Vibrations of Ferromagnetic Shell by Exact Space Treatment. In: Jaiani G, Podio-Guidugli P, eds. IUTAM Symposium on Relations of Shell Plate Beam and 3D Models: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on the Relations of Shell, Plate, Beam, and 3D Models, Dedicated to the Centenary of Ilia Vekua’s Birth, Held in Tbilisi, Georgia, April 23-27, 2007. IUTAM Bookseries. Springer Netherlands; 2008:49-57.

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. What Is This Bizarre See-Through Creature? IFLScience. October 30, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-leptocephalus/

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. Federal Research: Lessons Learned from the Pilot Technology Access Program. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schaper P. Meaning Making: Learning in Whistle Blowing. Doctoral dissertation. 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

Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times. September 16, 2016:MM38.

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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