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 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

1. Baker S. Genomic medicine has failed the poor. Nature. 2011;478(7369):287.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Cane MA, Evans M. CLIMATE VARIABILITY: Enhanced: Do the Tropics Rule? Science. 2000;290(5494):1107–1108.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kuba H, Oichi Y, Ohmori H. Presynaptic activity regulates Na(+) channel distribution at the axon initial segment. Nature. 2010;465(7301):1075–1078.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Zhang L, Yu X, Zheng L, Zhang Y, Li Y, Fang Q, Gao R, Kang B, Zhang Q, Huang JY, Konno H, Guo X, Ye Y, Gao S, Wang S, Hu X, Ren X, Shen Z, Ouyang W, Zhang Z. Lineage tracking reveals dynamic relationships of T cells in colorectal cancer. Nature. 2018 Oct 29.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Adam C. Forensic Evidence in Court. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Hall PJ, editor. The Square Kilometre Array: An Engineering Perspective. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005. VI, 430 p.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kumpulainen K, Lankinen T. Striving for Educational Equity and Excellence. In: Niemi H, Toom A, Kallioniemi A, editors. Miracle of Education: The Principles and Practices of Teaching and Learning in Finnish Schools (Second Revised Edition). Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2016. p. 71–82.

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 E. Australia Will Cull Two Million Feral Cats To Protect Native Animals. [Internet] IFLScience. 2015 Jul 16 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/australia-will-cull-two-million-feral-cats-protect-native-animals/

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. Surface Freight Transportation: A Comparison of the Costs of Road, Rail, and Waterways Freight Shipments That Are Not Passed on to Consumers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011. Report No.: GAO-11-134.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Chryssis AN. Design and fabrication of high-performance interband cascade tunable external cavity lasers [Doctoral dissertation]. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park; 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. Coll S. Size Matters. New York Times. 2017 Mar 10:BR11.

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