How to format your references using the Current Research in Cell Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Research in Cell Biology. 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

Brook, E., 2012. Climate change. The ice age carbon puzzle. Science 336, 682–683.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stewart, I., Cohen, J., 2000. Monolith. Nature 408, 913.

A journal article with 3 authors

Anderson, J.S., Rittle, J., Peters, J.C., 2013. Catalytic conversion of nitrogen to ammonia by an iron model complex. Nature 501, 84–87.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wertman, C.A., Yablonsky, R.M., Shen, Y., Merrill, J., Kincaid, C.R., Pockalny, R.A., 2014. Mesoscale convective system surface pressure anomalies responsible for meteotsunamis along the U.S. East Coast on June 13th, 2013. Sci. Rep. 4, 7143.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thiselton, A.C., 2010. 1 & 2 Thessalonians: Through the Centuries. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Gasteratos, A., Vincze, M., Tsotsos, J.K. (Eds.), 2008. Computer Vision Systems: 6th International Conference, ICVS 2008 Santorini, Greece, May 12-15, 2008 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Agostini, P., Suter, G.W., Gottardo, S., Giubilato, E., 2009. Indicators and Endpoints for Risk-Based Decision Processes with Decision Support Systems, in: Marcomini, A., Suter, Glenn Walter, II, Critto, A. (Eds.), Decision Support Systems for Risk-Based Management of Contaminated Sites. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 1–18.

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 Current Research in Cell Biology.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2017. Fracking Causes Over 12 Toxic Spills Per Week In The US [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/fracking-causes-12-toxic-spills-per-week-us/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2015. Federal Vehicle Fleets: Leading Practices for Managing Fleet Operations (No. GAO-15-644T). 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

Ulaganathan, M.N., 2016. Building a volunteered geographic information system (VGIS): A mobile application for disaster management (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Hodgman, J., 2017. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brook, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Brook, 2012; Stewart and Cohen, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Stewart and Cohen, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Wertman et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Research in Cell Biology
ISSN (print)	2590-2636
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