How to format your references using the Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry citation style

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

Brunham RC. IMMUNOLOGY. A Chlamydia vaccine on the horizon. Science. 2015 Jun;348(6241):1322–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Olson EL, Allen RM. The deterministic nature of earthquake rupture. Nature. 2005 Nov;438(7065):212–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mouchel CF, Osmont KS, Hardtke CS. BRX mediates feedback between brassinosteroid levels and auxin signalling in root growth. Nature. 2006 Sep;443(7110):458–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hudson AL, Weir C, Moon E, Harvie R, Klebe S, Clarke SJ, et al. Establishing a panel of chemo-resistant mesothelioma models for investigating chemo-resistance and identifying new treatments for mesothelioma. Sci Rep. 2014 Aug;4:6152.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Padmanabhan TR, Bala Tripura Sundari B. Design Through Verilog HDL. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Kyung C-M, editor. Smart Sensors for Health and Environment Monitoring. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Amaral V, Lima SR, Mota T, Chainho P. Exploring WebRTC Technology for Enhanced Real-Time Services. In: Rocha Á, Correia AM, Tan FB, Stroetmann KA, editors. New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 2. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014; pp 43–52.

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 Physiology and Biochemistry.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Astronomers Measure Oxygen In A Galaxy 12 Billion Light-Years Away [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Aug [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-measure-oxygen-in-a-galaxy-12-billion-lightyears-away/

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. Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program: Assessing Use of Proxy Data Would Enhance Ability to Know If States Are Meeting Their Goals. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Patrick NS. Employees’ Perceptions of Employers’ Response After Workplace Injury. 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

Rothenberg B. In Comeback From Injury, Stephens Falls Short Against Another American. New York Times. 2017 Jul;B9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Physiology and Biochemistry
Abbreviation	Cell. Physiol. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	1015-8987
ISSN (online)	1421-9778
Scope	Physiology