How to format your references using the Current Stem Cell Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Stem Cell Reports. 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. Krot AN. Planetary science. Bringing part of an asteroid back home. Science. 2011;333:1098–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Santen L, Krauth W. Absence of thermodynamic phase transition in a model glass former. Nature. 2000;405:550–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Zhang Y, Lu H, Bargmann CI. Pathogenic bacteria induce aversive olfactory learning in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature. 2005;438:179–84.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Meyer WK, Jamison J, Richter R, Woods SE, Partha R, Kowalczyk A, et al. Ancient convergent losses of Paraoxonase 1 yield potential risks for modern marine mammals. Science. 2018;361:591–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Nagasawa M. Physical Chemistry of Polyelectrolyte Solutions: Advances in Chemical Physics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Sakama C, Sardina S, Vasconcelos W, Winikoff M, editors. Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies IX: 9th International Workshop, DALT 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 3, 2011, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ramanathan V, Yao B, Fei-Fei L. Social Role Recognition for Human Event Understanding. In: Fu Y, editor. Human-Centered Social Media Analytics. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 75–93.

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 Stem Cell Reports.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Oldest Human Poop Tells Us What Neanderthals Ate [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/oldest-human-poop-tells-us-what-neanderthals-ate/

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. Construction of Space Shuttle Facilities at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 Jun. Report No.: B-183134.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Seesengood BN. Analysis of the Repairability of Resin Modified Glass Ionomer Cement [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2014.

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. Walsh MW. Panel Hears Complaints On Pensions At Delphi. New York Times. 2011 Jun 23;B3.

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	Current Stem Cell Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Stem Cell Rep.
ISSN (online)	2198-7866
Scope