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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Spitzer NC: DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE. Neurotransmitter-tailored dendritic trees. Science 2015;350:510–511.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smaglik P, Abbott A: Project offers free mouse sequence. Nature 2000;407:663–664.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gladyshev EA, Meselson M, Arkhipova IR: Massive horizontal gene transfer in bdelloid rotifers. Science 2008;320:1210–1213.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Stoleru D, Peng Y, Agosto J, Rosbash M: Coupled oscillators control morning and evening locomotor behaviour of Drosophila. Nature 2004;431:862–868.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rassool GH: Addiction for Nurses, Oxford, UK, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

An edited book

Zeng D, Yang CC, Tseng VS, Xing C, Chen H, Wang F-Y, et al., editors: Smart Health: International Conference, ICSH 2013, Beijing, China, August 3-4, 2013. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Kammer JA: Ciliary Body as a Therapeutic Target; in Samples JR, Ahmed IIK (eds): Surgical Innovations in Glaucoma. New York, NY, Springer, 2014, pp 45–59.

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

Hale T: Spectacular Images From Nikon’s Small World Photomicrography Competition Released [Internet]. IFLScience 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/photo-bee-eye-wins-nikons-small-world-microphotography-prize/

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: Intelligent Transportation Systems: Survey of Transit Providers Serving Small Urban and Rural Areas (GAO-16-639SP, June 21, 2016), an E-supplement to GAO-16-638, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Le Blanc JD: Helping African American Middle School Students Transition to High School with the New Normal Project: A Grant Proposal 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

Billard M: Eight Arms To Embrace Your Pair. New York Times 2010;E6.

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