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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. Zahnle K. Decline and fall of the empire. Nature. 2001;412:209–13.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Soldner F, Jaenisch R. Medicine. iPSC disease modeling. Science. 2012;338:1155–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Molnar P, Houseman GA, England PC. Earth science: palaeo-altimetry of Tibet. Nature. 2006;444:E4; discussion E4-5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. MacDonald MP, Paterson L, Volke-Sepulveda K, Arlt J, Sibbett W, Dholakia K. Creation and manipulation of three-dimensional optically trapped structures. Science. 2002;296:1101–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Marcus Y. Supercritical Water. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Pearton SJ. Gallium Nitride Processing for Electronics, Sensors and Spintronics. Abernathy CR, Ren F, editors. London: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Griesinger C, Desprez B, Coecke S, Casey W, Zuang V. Validation of Alternative In Vitro Methods to Animal Testing: Concepts, Challenges, Processes and Tools. In: Eskes C, Whelan M, editors. Validation of Alternative Methods for Toxicity Testing. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 65–132.

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. Intermittent Fasting Could be Beneficial to Health. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Department of Education GMR. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Aug. Report No.: B-241690.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Bortle CD. The role of mnemonic acronyms in clinical emergency medicine: A grounded theory study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2010.

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. Hardy M. After Storm, Houston Hopes to Regain Tourism Momentum. New York Times. 2017 Oct 23;TR2.

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