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. 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

Campbell, P.N. (2000). Health care in former soviet republics. Science 288, 2131b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lichtman, J.W., and Denk, W. (2011). The big and the small: challenges of imaging the brain’s circuits. Science 334, 618–623.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takayanagi, M., Kurisaki, I., and Nagaoka, M. (2014). Non-site-specific allosteric effect of oxygen on human hemoglobin under high oxygen partial pressure. Sci. Rep. 4, 4601.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Shine, R., Phillips, B., Waye, H., LeMaster, M., and Mason, R.T. (2001). Benefits of female mimicry in snakes. Nature 414, 267.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hauser, G. (2008). Hygienegerechte Apparate Und Anlagen (D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH).

An edited book

Doucleff, M. (2011). Pocket Guide to Biomolecular NMR (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Ramón-Vigo, R., Pérez-Higueras, N., Caballero, F., and Merino, L. (2016). A Framework for Modelling Local Human-Robot Interactions Based on Unsupervised Learning. In Social Robotics: 8th International Conference, ICSR 2016, Kansas City, MO, USA, November 1-3, 2016 Proceedings, A. Agah, J.-J. Cabibihan, A.M. Howard, M.A. Salichs, and H. He, eds. (Cham: Springer International Publishing), pp. 32–41.

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

Andrew, E. (2015). Why Arctic Melting Will Be Erratic In The Short Term (IFLScience).

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 (2008). Traffic Safety: Grants Generally Address Key Safety Issues, Despite State Eligibility and Management Difficulties (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Delisio, J.P. (2017). Fighting For A Cure: The Berry Plan’s Impact on Civilian Medical Research. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University.

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

Wagner, J. (2016). Cespedes Powers the Mets Again. New York Times D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Campbell, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Campbell, 2000; Lichtman and Denk, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Lichtman and Denk, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Shine et al., 2001)

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