How to format your references using the Cells citation style

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

Morton, O. PARTICLE PHYSICS: CERN Gives Higgs Hunters Extra Month to Collect Data. Science 2000, 289, 2014–2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nechiporuk, A.; Raible, D.W. FGF-Dependent Mechanosensory Organ Patterning in Zebrafish. Science 2008, 320, 1774–1777.

A journal article with 3 authors

Román-Leshkov, Y.; Chheda, J.N.; Dumesic, J.A. Phase Modifiers Promote Efficient Production of Hydroxymethylfurfural from Fructose. Science 2006, 312, 1933–1937.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Meier, T.; Polzer, P.; Diederichs, K.; Welte, W.; Dimroth, P. Structure of the Rotor Ring of F-Type Na+-ATPase from Ilyobacter Tartaricus. Science 2005, 308, 659–662.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Corten, R. Computational Approaches to Studying the Co-Evolution of Networks and Behavior in Social Dilemmas; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2014; ISBN 9781118762912.

An edited book

Seventeenth-Century Indivisibles Revisited; Jullien, V., Ed.; Science Networks. Historical Studies; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; Vol. 49; ISBN 9783319001302.

A chapter in an edited book

Revoredo, K.; Ochoa-Luna, J.E.; Cozman, F.G. Learning Terminologies in Probabilistic Description Logics. In Advances in Artificial Intelligence – SBIA 2010: 20th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, October 23-28, 2010. Proceedings; Rocha Costa, A.C. da, Vicari, R.M., Tonidandel, F., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; pp. 41–50 ISBN 9783642161377.

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 Cells.

Blog post

Davis, J. U.K. Suspends Ban On Controversial Pesticide Linked To Decline In Bee Populations Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/uk-suspends-ban-controversial-pesticide/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Planned Use of Information Technology for the Space Station; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1987;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mullin Piette, A.J. Dialogic Encounters among Health Care Providers in Pediatric Critical Care: A Qualitative, Collective Case Study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ, 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

Koblin, J. Into the Fray of Great TV. New York Times 2017, B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Cells
Abbreviation	Cells
ISSN (online)	2073-4409
Scope