How to format your references using the Cell Stem Cell citation style

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

John, J.L. (2009). The future of saving our past. Nature 459, 775–776.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kumar, S., and Vaux, D.L. (2002). Apoptosis. A cinderella caspase takes center stage. Science 297, 1290–1291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tanaka, S., Sawaya, M.R., and Yeates, T.O. (2010). Structure and mechanisms of a protein-based organelle in Escherichia coli. Science 327, 81–84.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Prakriya, M., Feske, S., Gwack, Y., Srikanth, S., Rao, A., and Hogan, P.G. (2006). Orai1 is an essential pore subunit of the CRAC channel. Nature 443, 230–233.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rossi, R.J. (2006). Theorems, Corollaries, Lemmas, and Methods of Proof (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Dieing, T., Hollricher, O., and Toporski, J. eds. (2011). Confocal Raman Microscopy (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Broccard, A.F., and Feihl, F. (2008). Interactions Between the Pulmonary Circulation and Ventilation: An Overview for Intensivists. In Respiratory System and Artificial Ventilation, U. Lucangelo, P. Pelosi, W. A. Zin, and A. Aliverti, eds. (Springer), pp. 47–69.

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 Stem Cell.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017). Sex Toys Contain Less Dangerous Chemicals Than Children’s Toys. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/sex-toys-contain-less-dangerous-chemicals-than-childrens-toys/.

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 (2009). Higher Education: Approaches to Attract and Fund International Students in the United States and Abroad (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

Shan, J. (2014). A Theoretical Investigation of Radial Lateral Wells with Shockwave Completion in Shale Gas Reservoirs.

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

Kinsley, M. (2017). The Faintest of Praise for the President. New York Times, SR2.

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 Stem Cell
Abbreviation	Cell Stem Cell
ISSN (print)	1934-5909
ISSN (online)	1875-9777
Scope	Cell Biology Genetics Molecular Medicine