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. Diringer E. Climate policy: letting go of Kyoto. Nature. 2011;479:291–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Larson HJ, Ghinai I. Lessons from polio eradication. Nature. 2011;473:446–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Whiteman G, Hope C, Wadhams P. Vast costs of Arctic change. Nature. 2013;499:401–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lee P, Lee D-J, Chan C, Chen S-W, Ch’en I, Jamora C. Dynamic expression of epidermal caspase 8 simulates a wound healing response. Nature. 2009;458:519–23.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cook M. Personnel Selection. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2008.

An edited book

1. Cohen AJ, Mercandetti M, Brazzo B, editors. The Lacrimal System: Diagnosis, Management, and Surgery, Second Edition. 2nd ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sarkiss M. Anesthesia for Interventional Bronchoscopic Procedures. In: Díaz-Jimenez JP, Rodriguez AN, editors. Interventions in Pulmonary Medicine. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 55–69.

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. Frogs Go Berserk Over Worm Video [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/frogs-go-berserk-over-worm-video/

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. ADP Budget: SSA’s Information Technology Systems Budget Requests and Obligations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Mar. Report No.: IMTEC-87-15FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Fetterolf-Klein S. Teacher leadership practices, supports and challenges in implementation of the common core high school math standards [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2015.

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. The Little State With a Big Mess. New York Times. 2011 Oct 23;BU1.

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

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