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

Kerr, R.A. (2000). GEOPHYSICS: Core Takes a Page From the Sea Floor. Science 290, 1274b–1275b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Green, P., and Ewing, B. (2013). Comment on “Evidence of abundant purifying selection in humans for recently acquired regulatory functions.” Science 340, 682.

A journal article with 3 authors

Murthy, V.R., van Westrenen, W., and Fei, Y. (2003). Experimental evidence that potassium is a substantial radioactive heat source in planetary cores. Nature 423, 163–165.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Shen, K., Zhang, L., Chen, X., Liu, L., Zhang, D., Han, Y., Chen, J., Long, J., Luque, R., Li, Y., et al. (2018). Ordered macro-microporous metal-organic framework single crystals. Science 359, 206–210.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Early, W.F., II (2010). Contractor and Client Relations to Assure Process Safety (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Caramia, M. (2008). Multi-objective Management in Freight Logistics: Increasing Capacity, Service Level and Safety with Optimization Algorithms P. Dell´Olmo, ed. (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Marescaux, J., and Mutter, D. (2007). The World Virtual University and the Internet: http://www.websurg.com. In Emerging Technologies in Surgery, R. M. Satava, A. Gaspari, and N. D. Lorenzo, eds. (Springer), pp. 19–25.

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

Andrew, E. (2014). No, The CDC Did Not Apologize And Say The Flu Vaccine Doesn’t Work. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/no-cdc-did-not-apologize-and-say-flu-vaccine-doesn-t-work/.

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 (1992). Stafford Student Loan Program: Correspondence Schools’ Loan Volume Declines Sharply (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

Viramontes, M. (2009). Parenting styles and practices and their impact on school behavior.

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

Rothenberg, B. (2016). Murray, on a High, Raises His Sights. New York Times, B13.

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