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. Banks, M. Seeking a PhD abroad. Nature 445:680, 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Striedter, G.F., and S. Srinivasan. BRAIN EVOLUTION. Knowing when to fold them. Science 349:31–32, 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Chen, X., D. Parker, and D.J. Singh. Importance of non-parabolic band effects in the thermoelectric properties of semiconductors. Sci. Rep. 3:3168, 2013.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Fawcett, P.J. et al. Extended megadroughts in the southwestern United States during Pleistocene interglacials. Nature 470:518–521, 2011.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Illian, J., A. Penttinen, H. Stoyan, and D. Stoyan. Statistical Analysis and Modelling of Spatial Point Patterns. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2008.

An edited book

1. Murrell, K.D., and B. Fried, editors. Food-Borne Parasitic Zoonoses: Fish and Plant-Borne Parasites. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Holinstat, M., K. Niisuke, and B.E. Tourdot. Platelets and Lipoxygenases. In: Lipoxygenases in Inflammation, edited by D. Steinhilber. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 83–99.

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. Do-it-yourself lava flows. IFLScience. IFLScience, , 2013 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/do-it-yourself-lava-flows/.

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. Compensatory Education: Aguilar v. Felton Decision’s Continuing Impact on Chapter 1 Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, , 1989 Sep. Report No.: HRD-89-131BR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Bottorff, E.A. The community college baccalaureate: A study of capital costs in Florida [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University, , 2011.

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. Kishkovsky, S. Vasily Aksyonov, 76, Exiled Soviet Writer. New York Times A23, 2009.

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 ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,6–8.

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