How to format your references using the Cell Structure and Function citation style

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

Smaglik, P. 2004. High road to Scotland. Nature, 432: 128–129.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blaser, M.J. and Kirschner, D. 2007. The equilibria that allow bacterial persistence in human hosts. Nature, 449: 843–849.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, Z., Yu, H. and Su, H. 2013. The transport properties of oxygen vacancy-related polaron-like bound state in HfOx. Sci. Rep., 3: 3246.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xiang, L., Wang, B., Ji, L. and Jiang, H. 2013. 4-D photoacoustic tomography. Sci. Rep., 3: 1113.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boero, R. 2015. Behavioral Computational Social Science.

An edited book

Wang, Y. 2016. Optimal Trajectory Planning and Train Scheduling for Urban Rail Transit Systems (B. Ning, T. van den Boom, and B. De Schutter, eds).

A chapter in an edited book

Ross, C. 2016. Innovating Means of Payment in Chile, 1840s–1860. In: The Book of Payments: Historical and Contemporary Views on the Cashless Society (B. Batiz-Lazo and L. Efthymiou, eds), pp. 33–42.

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 Structure and Function.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. Mouse vs. Scorpion- Who Do You Think Wins?

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. 1982. Need for Better Management of the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wright, J.L. 2015. Shade Tolerance and Physiological Response to Light Regime of the Invasive Species Lonicera maackii (Amur honeysuckle).

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

Grynbaum, M.M. 2017. Fox News May Add Ingraham and Move Up Hannity.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Blaser and Kirschner, 2007; Smaglik, 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Blaser and Kirschner, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Xiang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cell Structure and Function
ISSN (print)	0386-7196
ISSN (online)	1347-3700
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