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. Wickware, P. United States gives priority to skills shortage. Nature 404:686–687, 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Muoio, D.M., and C.B. Newgard. Diabetes: The good in fat. Nature 516:49–50, 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Dick, H.J.B., J. Lin, and H. Schouten. An ultraslow-spreading class of ocean ridge. Nature 426:405–412, 2003.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Xie, G. et al. A bond-order theory on the phonon scattering by vacancies in two-dimensional materials. Sci. Rep. 4:5085, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Baker, H.K., and G.S. Martin. Capital Structure and Corporate Financing Decisions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

1. Donkelaar, H.J.T. Clinical Neuroembryology: Development and Developmental Disorders of the Human Central Nervous System. edited by M. Lammens, and A. Hori. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Yates, L., and A. Terraschke. Love, Language and Little Ones: Successes and Stresses for Mothers Raising Bilingual Children in Exogamous Relationships. In: Successful Family Language Policy: Parents, Children and Educators in Interaction, edited by M. Schwartz, and A. Verschik. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013, pp. 105–125.

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. Andrew, E. Single Atom Detected With High-Powered MRI. IFLScience. IFLScience, , 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/single-atom-detected-high-powered-mri/.

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. NASA Space Suits. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, , 1992 Apr. Report No.: NSIAD-92-197R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Zuckerman, T. The Effect of Communication Between Parents and their Emerging Adult Offspring on Depression and Career Search Self-efficacy [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University, , 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

1. Vecsey, G. Call to the Bullpen Crackles With a Last Laugh. New York Times D3, 2010.

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 ^4–6,8.

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