How to format your references using the Cytokine and Growth Factor Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cytokine and Growth Factor Reviews. 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	Download the output style file
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]

D. Giardini, Geothermal quake risks must be faced, Nature 462 (2009) 848–849.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.H. Hoveyda, A.R. Zhugralin, The remarkable metal-catalysed olefin metathesis reaction, Nature 450 (2007) 243–251.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.G. Hinks, H. Claus, J.D. Jorgensen, The complex nature of superconductivity in MgB2 as revealed by the reduced total isotope effect, Nature 411 (2001) 457–460.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

O. Smith, A.J. Clapham, P. Rose, Y. Liu, J. Wang, R.G. Allaby, Genomic methylation patterns in archaeological barley show de-methylation as a time-dependent diagenetic process, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5559.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Douglas, E.A. Noy, Building Surveys and Reports, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

W. Abramowicz, D. Flejter, eds., Business Information Systems Workshops: BIS 2009 International Workshops, Poznan, Poland, April 27-29, 2009. Revised Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. Sutcu, Q. Li, N. Memon, Secure Sketches for Protecting Biometric Templates, in: P. Campisi (Ed.), Security and Privacy in Biometrics, Springer, London, 2013: pp. 69–104.

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 Cytokine and Growth Factor Reviews.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Scientists Detail Naked Mole-Rats’ Unique Anti-Cancer Gene, 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, Self-Sufficiency: Opportunities and Disincentives on the Road to Economic Independence, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Rivera, The Role of Privacy, Brand Labeling, and Cost on Condom Procurement: Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Assess a University Policy, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 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]

G. Vecsey, Finish Is a Beacon Of an Alluring World Cup, New York Times (2010) D1.

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	Cytokine and Growth Factor Reviews
Abbreviation	Cytokine Growth Factor Rev.
ISSN (print)	1359-6101
Scope	General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Immunology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Immunology and Allergy