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

Jorgensen RA. Plant science. A window on the sophistication of plants. Science. 2011 Aug;333(6046):1103–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maselli V, Trincardi F. Man made deltas. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1926.

A journal article with 3 authors

Noda S, Chutinan A, Imada M. Trapping and emission of photons by a single defect in a photonic bandgap structure. Nature. 2000 Oct;407(6804):608–10.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Soon F-F, Ng L-M, Zhou XE, West GM, Kovach A, Tan MHE, et al. Molecular mimicry regulates ABA signaling by SnRK2 kinases and PP2C phosphatases. Science. 2012 Jan;335(6064):85–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kirchner T. Merger Arbitrage. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

Fürnkranz J, Scheffer T, Spiliopoulou M, editors. Knowledge Discovery in Databases: PKDD 2006: 10th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases Berlin, Germany, September 18-22, 2006 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Bahadur R, Samuels WB. Wastewater Critical Infrastructure Security and Protection. In: Clark RM, Hakim S, Ostfeld A, editors. Handbook of Water and Wastewater Systems Protection. New York, NY: Springer; 2011; pp 87–102.

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

Hale T. Fish Spotted Stuck Inside Jellyfish, Regrets Everything [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Jun [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fish-spotted-stuck-inside-jellyfish-regrets-everything/

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. Toward the Moon, Asteroids, and Mars. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Foley JD. Comparing Kac-Moody groups over the complex numbers and fields of positive characteristic via homotopy theory. 2012

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

Lanchester J. The Major Blind Spots in Macroeconomics. New York Times. 2017 Feb;MM14.

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