How to format your references using the Cell Reports Physcial Science citation style

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

Buckingham, S. (2004). Exploring the public domain. Nature 428, 774.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ruths, D., and Pfeffer, J. (2014). Social sciences. Social media for large studies of behavior. Science 346, 1063–1064.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vokrouhlický, D., Nesvorný, D., and Bottke, W.F. (2003). The vector alignments of asteroid spins by thermal torques. Nature 425, 147–151.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Huang, X., Zhao, Y., Ao, Z., and Wang, G. (2014). Micelle-template synthesis of nitrogen-doped mesoporous graphene as an efficient metal-free electrocatalyst for hydrogen production. Sci. Rep. 4, 7557.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooke, R.M., Nieboer, D., and Misiewicz, J. (2014). Fat-Tailed Distributions: Volume 1 (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Heinrich, M., and Gansäuer, A. eds. (2012). Radicals in Synthesis III (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Carmichael, J.C., and Stamos, M.J. (2015). Right Hemicolectomy and Ileocecectomy: Laparoscopic Approach. In Advanced Techniques in Minimally Invasive and Robotic Colorectal Surgery, O. Bardakcioglu, ed. (Springer US), pp. 37–48.

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 Physcial Science.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015). What Will Humans Look Like In 1,000 Years? IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/short-video-where-humanity-will-be-1000-years/.

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 (1990). Issues to Be Considered During Deliberations to Reauthorize the Federal-Aid Highway Program (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

Eslava Rios, J. (2015). Automatic melanoma detection in dermatological images.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2006). Supreme Court to Weigh Award in a Smoker’s Death. New York Times, C3.

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 Physcial Science
ISSN (online)	2666-3864
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