How to format your references using the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering citation style

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

1. Ploegh, H.L. Don Craig Wiley (1944-2001). Nature 415:492, 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hetherington, A.M., and F.I. Woodward. The role of stomata in sensing and driving environmental change. Nature 424:901–908, 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wood, B.J., A.N. Halliday, and M. Rehkämper. Volatile accretion history of the Earth. Nature 467:E6-7, 2010.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Liu, Z., Y. Wang, X. Ai, W. Tu, and M. Pan. Photoregenerative I⁻/I₃⁻ couple as a liquid cathode for proton exchange membrane fuel cell. Sci. Rep. 4:6795, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Speight, J.G., and K. Singh. Environmental Management of Energy from Biofuels and Biofeedstocks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

An edited book

1. Andreß, H.-J. Applied Panel Data Analysis for Economic and Social Surveys. edited by K. Golsch, and A.W. Schmidt. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Pfeiffer, H. Hydration Forces Between Lipid Bilayers: A Theoretical Overview and a Look on Methods Exploring Dehydration. In: Membrane Hydration: The Role of Water in the Structure and Function of Biological Membranes, edited by E.A. Disalvo. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 69–104.

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 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering.

Blog post

1. Hale, T. Venomous Lionfish Are Taking Over The Mediterranean. IFLScience. IFLScience, , 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/venomous-lionfish-are-taking-over-the-mediterranean/.

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. K-12 Education: Education Needs to Improve Oversight of Its 21st Century Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, , 2017 Apr. Report No.: GAO-17-400.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Survis, F.D. Residential lawn water use and lawn irrigation practices: Wellington, Florida [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University, , 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

1. Baker, P. Reluctantly, Trump Recertifies Iran’s Compliance With Nuclear Agreement. New York Times A7, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^3,4.
This sentence cites four references ^3,5,7,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
Abbreviation	Cell. Mol. Bioeng.
ISSN (print)	1865-5025
ISSN (online)	1865-5033
Scope	General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Modelling and Simulation