How to format your references using the Cilia citation style

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

1. Turner M. Animal behaviour: brain food. Nature. 2013;498:446.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Pan RK, Fortunato S. Author Impact Factor: tracking the dynamics of individual scientific impact. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4880.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hayden EJ, Ferrada E, Wagner A. Cryptic genetic variation promotes rapid evolutionary adaptation in an RNA enzyme. Nature. 2011;474:92–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Vaughan DG, Marshall GJ, Connolley WM, King JC, Mulvaney R. Climate change. Devil in the detail. Science. 2001;293:1777–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bma. Everyday Medical Ethics and Law. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Roli F, Vitulano S, editors. Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2005: 13th International Conference, Cagliari, Italy, September 6-8, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Nigam R, Liang S. Perturbing Thermodynamically Unfeasible Metabolic Networks. In: Setubal JC, Verjovski-Almeida S, editors. Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2005, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil, July 27-29, 2005 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. p. 30–41.

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 Cilia.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Fatal Road Crashes Involving Stoned Drivers Doubled In Washington After Legalization [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/stoned-drivers-and-unscientific-limits-have-caused-spike-fatal-car-accidents/

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. NASA: More Knowledge Needed to Determine Best Alternatives to Provide Space Station Logistics Support. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 May. Report No.: GAO-05-488.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Sewell A. A typology of sampling in hip-hop [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 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

1. (nyt) SK. World Briefing | Asia: Russia: Journalist’s Body Found. New York Times. 2002 Apr 6;A10.

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	Cilia
Abbreviation	Cilia
ISSN (online)	2046-2530
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