How to format your references using the Cellulose citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cellulose. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Dalton R (2000) Los Alamos labs are safe from fire. Nature 405:264

A journal article with 2 authors

Blander JM, Amsen D (2009) Immunology. Amino acid addiction. Science 324:1282–1283

A journal article with 3 authors

Karsai M, Perra N, Vespignani A (2014) Time varying networks and the weakness of strong ties. Sci Rep 4:4001

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Setogawa S, Yamaura H, Arasaki T, et al (2014) Deficits in memory-guided limb movements impair obstacle avoidance locomotion in Alzheimer’s disease mouse model. Sci Rep 4:7220

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krichen S, Chaouachi J (2014) Graph-Related Optimization and Decision Support Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Cook D (2007) Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis: With R and Ggobi. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Levitt JO (2015) Shave Removal. In: Levitt JO, Sobanko JF (eds) Safety in Office-Based Dermatologic Surgery. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 31–40

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 Cellulose.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Whether You Respond To A Placebo Can Indicate If You’ll Respond To Antidepressants. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/placebo-response-indicates-antidepressant-reaction-embargo-1500-gmt/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2013) District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program: Actions Needed to Address Weaknesses in Administration and Oversight. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Galan M (2012) Educational practices to support homeless students. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Saslow L (2007) After the Storm, a Sigh of Relief. New York Times LI2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalton 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Dalton 2000; Blander and Amsen 2009).

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

Two authors: (Blander and Amsen 2009)
Three or more authors: (Setogawa et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cellulose
Abbreviation	Cellulose
ISSN (print)	0969-0239
ISSN (online)	1572-882X
Scope	Polymers and Plastics

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