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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Sekercioglu CH. Ecology. Functional Extinctions of Bird Pollinators Cause Plant Declines. Science 2011;331(6020):1019–1020.

A journal article with 2 authors

Du H and Rosbash M. The U1 snRNP Protein U1C Recognizes the 5’ Splice Site in the Absence of Base Pairing. Nature 2002;419(6902):86–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Syntichaki P, Topalidou I and Thireos G. The Gcn5 Bromodomain Co-Ordinates Nucleosome Remodelling. Nature 2000;404(6776):414–417.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Semmens JM, Payne NL, Huveneers C, et al. Feeding Requirements of White Sharks May Be Higher than Originally Thought. Sci Rep 2013;3:1471.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perlmutter DD and Rothstein RL. The Challenge of Climate Change. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2010.

An edited book

Bobenko AI, Sullivan JM, Schröder P, et al., (eds). Discrete Differential Geometry. Oberwolfach Seminars. Birkhäuser: Basel; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Krötzsch M. OWL 2 Profiles: An Introduction to Lightweight Ontology Languages. In: Reasoning Web. Semantic Technologies for Advanced Query Answering: 8th International Summer School 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 3-8, 2012. Proceedings. (Eiter T and Krennwallner T. eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2012; pp. 112–183.

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

Hale T. Five Women Masturbated Inside An MRI Machine. This Is A Video Of Their Brains During Orgasm. IFLScience; 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/womens-brains-during-an-orgasm/ [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. Inadequate Monitoring of U.S. Merchant Tanker Fleet Hampers Mobilization Planning. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Huff HK. Thumb Twiddle Glossolalia: The Soumage. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA; 2013.

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

Dynarski S. Finding a Fairer Way to Decide Who’s Gifted. New York Times 2016;BU6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sekercioglu, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Du and Rosbash, 2002; Sekercioglu, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Du and Rosbash, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Semmens et al., 2013)

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