How to format your references using the Cells Tissues Organs citation style

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

Geldner N: Botany. Making phloem--a near-death experience. Science 2014;345:875–876.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rout ME, Callaway RM: Plant science. An invasive plant paradox. Science 2009;324:734–735.

A journal article with 3 authors

Standen EM, Du TY, Larsson HCE: Developmental plasticity and the origin of tetrapods. Nature 2014;513:54–58.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang H, Westin L, Nong Y, Birnbaum S, Bendor J, Brismar H, et al.: Norbin is an endogenous regulator of metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 signaling. Science 2009;326:1554–1557.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zigangirov KS: Theory of Code Division Multiple Access Communication, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004.

An edited book

Hliněný P, Kučera A, editors: Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2010: 35th International Symposium, MFCS 2010, Brno, Czech Republic, August 23-27, 2010. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Filoso S, Martinelli LA, Howarth RW, Boyer EW, Dentener F: Human activities changing the nitrogen cycle in Brazil; in Martinelli LA, Howarth RW (eds): Nitrogen Cycling in the Americas: Natural and Anthropogenic Influences and Controls. Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2006, pp 61–89.

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 Tissues Organs.

Blog post

Carpineti C: Spectacular Footage Of Narwhals Reveals The True Purpose Of Their Tusks. IFLScience 2017;

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: Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak Needs to Improve Its Accountability for Taxpayer Relief Act Funds, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rogers RC: Documenting cultural transition through contact archaeology in Tíhoo, Mérida, Yucatán 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

Feeney K: Warming Up to Sausage and Dogs. New York Times 2006;NJ13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Cells Tissues Organs
Abbreviation	Cells Tissues Organs
ISSN (print)	1422-6405
ISSN (online)	1422-6421
Scope	Anatomy Histology