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

Crocker, J.C. Materials Science. Turning Away from High Symmetry. Science 2010, 327, 535–536.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rabosky, D.L.; Sorhannus, U. Diversity Dynamics of Marine Planktonic Diatoms across the Cenozoic. Nature 2009, 457, 183–186.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stach, S.; Benard, J.; Giurfa, M. Local-Feature Assembling in Visual Pattern Recognition and Generalization in Honeybees. Nature 2004, 429, 758–761.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Beaulieu, S.; Comby, A.; Clergerie, A.; Caillat, J.; Descamps, D.; Dudovich, N.; Fabre, B.; Géneaux, R.; Légaré, F.; Petit, S.; et al. Attosecond-Resolved Photoionization of Chiral Molecules. Science 2017, 358, 1288–1294.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Russell, C. Trustee Investment Strategy for Endowments and Foundations; John Wiley & Sons Ltd: Oxford, UK, 2006; ISBN 9781118673393.

An edited book

Membrane Computing: 14th International Conference, CMC 2013, Chişinău, Republic of Moldova, August 20-23, 2013, Revised Selected Papers; Alhazov, A., Cojocaru, S., Gheorghe, M., Rogozhin, Y., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014; Vol. 8340; ISBN 9783642542381.

A chapter in an edited book

Husain, Z.; Dutta, M. Nabadiganta: Women Workers in Kolkata’s IT Sector. In Women in Kolkata’s IT Sector: Satisficing Between Work and Household; Dutta, M., Ed.; SpringerBriefs in Sociology; Springer India: New Delhi, 2014; pp. 75–96 ISBN 9788132215929.

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

Andrew, D. How To Find An Exoplanet (Part 1) Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-to-find-an-exoplanet-part-1/ (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 Information Technology: DHS Needs to Enhance Management of Major Investments; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2013;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Warwick-Smith, K.M. Remembering Prudence: Tracking the Iconography of a Cardinal Virtue to Her Resurgence in Depth Psychology. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute: Carpinteria, CA, 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

Alderman, L. Romanian’s Tale Has Art World Fearing Worst. New York Times 2013, A1.

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