How to format your references using the Cellular Logistics citation style

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

Goldston D. A debatable proposition. Nature 2008; 451:621.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crespi B, Springer S. Ecology. Social slime molds meet their match. Science 2003; 299:56–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Katz RF, Spiegelman M, Holtzman B. The dynamics of melt and shear localization in partially molten aggregates. Nature 2006; 442:676–9.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Jin C, Wang G, Le A-T, Lin CD. Route to optimal generation of soft X-ray high harmonics with synthesized two-color laser pulses. Sci Rep 2014; 4:7067.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

de Klerk A. Fischer-Tropsch Refining. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

Roddick JF, Benjamins VR, Si-said Cherfi S, Chiang R, Claramunt C, Elmasri RA, Grandi F, Han H, Hepp M, Lytras MD, et al., editors. Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Theory and Practice: ER 2006 Workshops BP-UML, CoMoGIS, COSS, ECDM, OIS, QoIS, SemWAT, Tucson, AZ, USA, November 6-9, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Husain Z, Dutta M. Nabadiganta: Women Workers in Kolkata’s IT Sector. In: Dutta M, editor. Women in Kolkata’s IT Sector: Satisficing Between Work and Household. New Delhi: Springer India; 2014. page 75–96.

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 Logistics.

Blog post

Andrew E. Despite Shell’s About-Face, Interest In Arctic Oil Grows [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/despite-shell-s-about-face-interest-arctic-oil-grows/

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. Technology Assessment: Internet of Things: Status and implications of an increasingly connected world. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Richard K. College Programs in Women’s Prisons: Faculty Perceptions of Teaching Higher Education Behind Bars. 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

Gustines GG. Friendly Neighborhood Web-Slinger Exhibition. New York Times2017; :C16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Cellular Logistics
Abbreviation	Cell. Logist.
ISSN (print)	2159-2780
ISSN (online)	2159-2799
Scope