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

Ruiz, J. (2014). The early heat loss evolution of Mars and their implications for internal and environmental history. Sci. Rep. 4, 4338.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knouse, K.A., and Amon, A. (2015). Cell biology: the micronucleus gets its big break. Nature 522, 162–163.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huang, J., Lesser, C.F., and Lory, S. (2008). The essential role of the CopN protein in Chlamydia pneumoniae intracellular growth. Nature 456, 112–115.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ando, J., Shibata, Y., Okajima, Y., Kanagawa, K., Furusho, M., and Tomioka, N. (2001). Striped iron zoning of olivine induced by dislocation creep in deformed peridotites. Nature 414, 893–895.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Urick, V.J., Jr, Mckinney, J.D., and Williams, K.J. (2015). FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROWAVE PHOTONICS (John Wiley & Sons, Inc).

An edited book

Singh, L.R., Dar, T.A., and Ahmad, P. eds. (2015). Proteostasis and Chaperone Surveillance (Springer India).

A chapter in an edited book

Santa-Maria, C., Jain, S., and Gradishar, W.J. (2016). Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER2): Translating the Lab to the Clinic. In Molecular Pathology of Breast Cancer, S. Badve and Y. Gökmen-Polar, eds. (Springer International Publishing), pp. 59–70.

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

Davis, J. (2016). August Ties With July As The Hottest Month Ever Recorded. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/august-ties-with-july-as-the-hottest-month-ever-recorded/.

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 (1988). Securities Regulation: Hostile Corporate Takeovers: Synopses of Thirty-Two Attempts (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

Williams, V.D. (2014). Leadership behavior practice patterns’ relationship to employee work engagement in a nonprofit that supports the homeless.

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

St. John Kelly, E. (1997). With Historic Brownstone Gone, Is Development at Hand? New York Times, 1410.

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

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