How to format your references using the Cellular Reprogramming citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cellular Reprogramming (CELL). 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

Lewis R. Genes versus Cancer. Nature 2007;446(7137):826–827.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brucker RM and Bordenstein SR. The Hologenomic Basis of Speciation: Gut Bacteria Cause Hybrid Lethality in the Genus Nasonia. Science 2013;341(6146):667–669.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yin J, Sun Y and Ge F. Reduced Plant Nutrition under Elevated CO₂ Depresses the Immunocompetence of Cotton Bollworm against Its Endoparasite. Sci Rep 2014;4:4538.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Osuna CE, Lim S-Y, Kublin JL, et al. Evidence That CD32a Does Not Mark the HIV-1 Latent Reservoir. Nature 2018;561(7723):E20–E28.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Millon T and Grossman S. Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2007.

An edited book

Guang X. Linear Network Error Correction Coding. (Zhang Z. ed). SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer: New York, NY; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee DD, Yi S-J, McGill S, et al. RoboCup 2011 Humanoid League Winners. In: RoboCup 2011: Robot Soccer World Cup XV. (Röfer T, Mayer NM, Savage J, et al. eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2012; pp. 37–50.

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 Reprogramming.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Experiment Proves Einstein Wrong. IFLScience; 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-prove-spooky-action-distance-absolutely-real/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Hazardous Waste: Problems and Cleanup Efforts at an FAA Facility in Oklahoma City. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Reese NE. The Ecomorphology of White-Tailed Deer Lower Limb Bones Through the Holocene in Central North America. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University: Edwardsville, IL; 2015.

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

Frenkel S, Scott M and Mozur P. Mystery of Motive for a Ransomware Attack: Money, Mayhem or a Message? New York Times 2017;A7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Lewis, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Brucker and Bordenstein, 2013; Lewis, 2007).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Brucker and Bordenstein, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Osuna et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cellular Reprogramming
Abbreviation	Cell. Reprogram.
ISSN (print)	2152-4971
ISSN (online)	2152-4998
Scope	Biotechnology Cell Biology Developmental Biology