How to format your references using the Cell Transplantation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cell Transplantation. 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	Download the output style file
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

1. Vrakking M. Journal club. A physicist discusses how to visualize a molecule changing shape. Nature. 2010;465(7296):271.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Truffer M, Fahnestock M. Climate change. Rethinking ice sheet time scales. Science. 2007;315(5818):1508–1510.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Assender H, Bliznyuk V, Porfyrakis K. How surface topography relates to materials’ properties. Science. 2002;297(5583):973–976.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Pfreundt U, Kopf M, Belkin N, Berman-Frank I, Hess WR. The primary transcriptome of the marine diazotroph Trichodesmium erythraeum IMS101. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:6187.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Robyns B, François B, Delille G, Saudemont C. Energy Storage in Electric Power Grids. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

1. Pan Z, Cheok AD, Müller W, Zhang X, Wong K, editors. Transactions on Edutainment IV. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. X, 277 p. 142 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

A chapter in an edited book

1. Diehl MC, Elmore LW, Holt SE. Telomere Dysfunction and the DNA Damage Response. In: Hiyama K, editor. Telomeres and Telomerase in Cancer. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2009. p. 87–125.

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 Transplantation.

Blog post

1. Andrew D. The Ocean Is Losing Its Breath – And Climate Change Is Making It Worse. [Internet] IFLScience. 2016 Nov 3 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-ocean-is-losing-its-breath-and-climate-change-is-making-it-worse/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Information Technology: DHS Needs to Fully Define and Implement Policies and Procedures for Effectively Managing Investments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007. Report No.: GAO-07-424.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Wright C. A quantitative study of retirement knowledge among Spring 2009 Arizona high school graduates [Doctoral dissertation]. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix; 2010.

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

1. Marx L. Designing a Lasting Partnership. New York Times. 2015 Jul 12:ST13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Cell Transplantation
Abbreviation	Cell Transplant.
ISSN (print)	0963-6897
ISSN (online)	1555-3892
Scope	Cell Biology Biomedical Engineering Transplantation