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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Katz, D.L. (2014). Perspective: Obesity is not a disease. Nature 508, S57.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seelig, B., and Szostak, J.W. (2007). Selection and evolution of enzymes from a partially randomized non-catalytic scaffold. Nature 448, 828–831.

A journal article with 3 authors

Czaplicka, A., Holyst, J.A., and Sloot, P.M.A. (2013). Noise enhances information transfer in hierarchical networks. Sci. Rep. 3, 1223.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Holm, T.M., Habashi, J.P., Doyle, J.J., Bedja, D., Chen, Y., van Erp, C., Lindsay, M.E., Kim, D., Schoenhoff, F., Cohn, R.D., et al. (2011). Noncanonical TGFβ signaling contributes to aortic aneurysm progression in Marfan syndrome mice. Science 332, 358–361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, D.J. (2011). Bond Math (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Pieroni, A., and Quave, C.L. eds. (2014). Ethnobotany and Biocultural Diversities in the Balkans: Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Development and Reconciliation (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Sokolova, M.V., and Fernández Caballero, A. (2012). Data and Results. In Decision Making in Complex Systems: The DeciMaS Agent-based Interdisciplinary Framework Approach Intelligent Systems Reference Library., A. Fernández Caballero, ed. (Springer), pp. 139–167.

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

Fang, J. (2016). Chickens Need Color Vision. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chickens-need-color-vision/.

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 (2010). Campaign Finance Reform: Additional Information Related to Program Goals in Two States Offering Full Public Funding for Political Candidates (GAO-10-391SP), an E-supplement to GAO-10-390 (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

Lytle, S.C. (2010). Giving voice to the past: New editions of select repertoire of the 26th Regiment Band, North Carolina troops, C.S.A.

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

Van Witsendavid Montefioregina Paglia, B.L.F.G.T.C.S.J.K.C.C.A.R.B.O.E.J. (1978). Letters TO THE EDITOR; The Arts and Mrs. Mondale Apple Annie Fashions Girth and Great Voices. New York Times, The New York Times MagazineSM28.

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