How to format your references using the Cellular Signalling citation style

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

[1]

S.D. Friedman, Comment on “Magnetic resonance spectroscopy identifies neural progenitor cells in the live human brain,” Science 321 (2008) 640.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.R. Ehrlich, D. Kennedy, Sustainability. Millennium assessment of human behavior, Science 309 (2005) 562–563.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Poinar, M. Kuch, S. Pääbo, Molecular analyses of oral polio vaccine samples, Science 292 (2001) 743–744.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. Li, H. Liu, C. Lai, P. Sun, W. Zeng, F. Wu, L. Zhang, S. Wang, C. Tian, J. Ding, Differential modulations of KCNQ1 by auxiliary proteins KCNE1 and KCNE2, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4973.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Placzek, R. Bielecki, M. Messing, F. Schwarzer Tunnel, Zielgenau bis ans Ende des Tunnels, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

M.V.K. Sivakumar, R.P. Motha, H.P. Das, eds., Natural Disasters and Extreme Events in Agriculture: Impacts and Mitigation, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Roth, H. Peretz, D. Barak, How Stigma Affects Us: The Voice of Self-advocates, in: K. Scior, S. Werner (Eds.), Intellectual Disability and Stigma: Stepping Out from the Margins, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016: pp. 49–59.

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 Signalling.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, These Trees Could Protect Against Wildfires, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/these-trees-can-protect-against-wild-fires/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Aviation Security: Transportation Security Administration Has Strengthened Planning to Guide Investments in Key Aviation Security Programs, but More Work Remains, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Staal, The Relationships Among Sleep Quality, Frailty, and Falls in Older Adults Residing in the Community, Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2017.

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

[1]

P.R. Verkuil, The Case for Bureaucracy, New York Times (2016) A23.

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 Signalling
Abbreviation	Cell. Signal.
ISSN (print)	0898-6568
Scope	Cell Biology