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. Melino G. The Sirens’ song. Nature. 2001;412:23.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Gorlach S, Slabicki M. Scientists and societies. The Polish biotech gap. Nature. 2004;427:870.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Pompilio L, Kacelnik A, Behmer ST. State-dependent learned valuation drives choice in an invertebrate. Science. 2006;311:1613–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Li H, Xu H, Zhou Y, Zhang J, Long C, Li S, et al. The phosphothreonine lyase activity of a bacterial type III effector family. Science. 2007;315:1000–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Berthold HJ, Binnewies M. Chemisches Grundpraktikum. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

1. Gruba P. Blended Language Program Evaluation. Cárdenas-Claros MS, Suvorov R, Rick K, editors. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bigelow TA, Labyed Y. Attenuation Compensation and Estimation. In: Mamou J, Oelze ML, editors. Quantitative Ultrasound in Soft Tissues. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 71–93.

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. Andrew E. Four Fennec Foxes Born At The Living Desert Zoo [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/four-fennec-foxes-born-living-desert-zoo/

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. GAO’s Authority for Involvement in Science and Technology Policy Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Dec. Report No.: B-177806.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Greene J. Recognizing the “Muchness” in Art Education: a Historical Analysis of Developments in Education and Art Education Since the 1950s and the Finding Your Muchness Photoshop Curriculum [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington 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. Crow K. The New Commitments. New York Times. 2002 Dec 22;144.

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