How to format your references using the Cell Reports Medicine citation style

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

Steinberger, B. (2008). Geophysics. Reconstructing Earth history in three dimensions. Science 322, 866–868.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clark, A.G., and Messer, P.W. (2015). Evolutionary genomics. Conundrum of jumbled mosquito genomes. Science 347, 27–28.

A journal article with 3 authors

Greiner, J., Cuby, J.G., and McCaughrean, M.J. (2001). An unusually massive stellar black hole in the Galaxy. Nature 414, 522–525.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wang, F., Li, P., Wang, D., Li, L., Xie, S., Liu, L., Wang, Y., and Li, W.J. (2014). Mechanically modulated dewetting by atomic force microscope for micro- and nano- droplet array fabrication. Sci. Rep. 4, 6524.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Helsel, D.R. (2011). Statistics for Censored Environmental Data Using Minitab® and R (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Mateo, C.R., Gómez, J., Villalaín, J., and González-Ros, J.M. eds. (2006). Protein-Lipid Interactions: New Approaches and Emerging Concepts (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Lin, S., and Huang, Z. (2016). Systematic Analyses of Substructures. In Comparative Design of Structures: Concepts and Methodologies, Z. Huang, ed. (Springer), pp. 115–199.

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 Reports Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Rosetta’s Alice Instrument Returns First Science Data. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosetta-s-alice-instrument-returns-first-science-data/.

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 (1993). Federal Research: Aging Federal Laboratories Need Repairs and Upgrades (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

Nasrollahzadeh, Y. (2013). Support group for caregivers of older adults affected by dementia: A grant proposal project.

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

Gustines, G.G. (2015). Free Digital Comics Site Is Expanding in U.S. With Celebrity Help. New York Times, B6.

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 Reports Medicine
ISSN (online)	2666-3791
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