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. Zhang X. The epigenetic landscape of plants. Science. 2008;320(5875):489–492.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lambeck K, Chappell J. Sea level change through the last glacial cycle. Science. 2001;292(5517):679–686.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Raxworthy CJ, Forstner MRJ, Nussbaum RA. Chameleon radiation by oceanic dispersal. Nature. 2002;415(6873):784–787.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Calamia V, Mateos J, Fernández-Puente P, Lourido L, Rocha B, Fernández-Costa C, Montell E, Vergés J, Ruiz-Romero C, Blanco FJ. A pharmacoproteomic study confirms the synergistic effect of chondroitin sulfate and glucosamine. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:5069.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Koperski J. The Physics of Theism. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Antoniadis A, Poggi J-M, Brossat X, editors. Modeling and Stochastic Learning for Forecasting in High Dimensions. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. X, 339 p. 105 illus., 49 illus. in color. (Lecture Notes in Statistics).

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hwang LC, Hohlbein J, Holden SJ, Kapanidis AN. Single-Molecule FRET: Methods and Biological Applications. In: Hinterdorfer P, Oijen A, editors. Handbook of Single-Molecule Biophysics. New York, NY: Springer US; 2009. p. 129–163.

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. Andrews R. Half Of All PhD Students Suffer From Psychological Distress. [Internet] IFLScience. 2017 Mar 30 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/brain/half-phd-students-suffer-psychologica-distress/

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. Error in the Pell Grant Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985. Report No.: 127278.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ibarra AL. Novice Clinicians and the Experience of Transcendence in Clinical Training and Supervision [Doctoral dissertation]. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University; 2017.

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. Villarosa L. Done Right, Colonoscopy Takes Time, Study Finds. New York Times. 2006 Dec 19:F5.

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

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