How to format your references using the Cell Research citation style

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

1. Amelino-Camelia G. No theory is too special to question. Nature 2012; 483:125.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Tsymbal EY, Kohlstedt H. Applied physics. Tunneling across a ferroelectric. Science 2006; 313:181–183.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mitchell A, Wei P, Lim WA. Oscillatory stress stimulation uncovers an Achilles’ heel of the yeast MAPK signaling network. Science 2015; 350:1379–1383.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Neumann P, Koeniger N, Koeniger G, Tingek S, Kryger P, Moritz RF. Home-site fidelity in migratory honeybees. Nature 2000; 406:474–475.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Dorronsoro B, Ruiz P, Danoy G, Pigné Y, Bouvry P. Evolutionary Algorithms for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Ahmed I, Chen Z (david) eds. Computational Electromagnetics—Retrospective and Outlook: In Honor of Wolfgang J.R. Hoefer. Singapore: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ermilov I, Lehmann J, Martin M, Auer S. LODStats: The Data Web Census Dataset. In: Groth P, Simperl E, Gray A, et al., eds. The Semantic Web – ISWC 2016: 15th International Semantic Web Conference, Kobe, Japan, October 17–21, 2016, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016:38–46.

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 Research.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Greenland Glacier Just Shed A Chunk Of Ice The Size Of Manhattan. IFLScience 2015.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Meeting the Government’s Technology Challenge: Results of a GAO Symposium. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ray SE. Impact of Training Intervention on Emotional Intelligence in Health Care Administrators and Physician Leaders. 2012.

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

1. Barron J. A Neighborhood Wants Its Historic District Expanded. New York Times. June 18, 2017:A17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Research
Abbreviation	Cell Res.
ISSN (print)	1001-0602
ISSN (online)	1748-7838
Scope	Cell Biology Molecular Biology

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