How to format your references using the Cytotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cytotherapy. 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]

Koen D. Nuts & bolts. Nature 2004;431:228.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Miyanari Y, Torres-Padilla M-E. Control of ground-state pluripotency by allelic regulation of Nanog. Nature 2012;483:470–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Caraveo-Frescas JA, Khan MA, Alshareef HN. Polymer ferroelectric field-effect memory device with SnO channel layer exhibits record hole mobility. Sci Rep 2014;4:5243.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Garnero EJ, Maupin V, Lay T, Fouch MJ. Variable azimuthal anisotropy in Earth’s lowermost mantle. Science 2004;306:259–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

McMaster MC. LC/MS. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Minton GE, editor. John Bale’s “The Image of Both Churches.” vol. 6. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jagadish, Ray A. A Fuzzy Multi-criteria Decision-making Model for Green Electrical Discharge Machining. In: Das KN, Deep K, Pant M, Bansal JC, Nagar A, editors. Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving: SocProS 2014, Volume 1, New Delhi: Springer India; 2015, p. 33–43.

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 Cytotherapy.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. The Cosmic Crime-Scene Hunt For Clues On How Galaxies Are Formed. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-cosmic-crimescene-hunt-for-clues-on-how-galaxies-are-formed/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Aviation Safety: FAA’s Efforts to Implement Recommendations to Improve Certification and Regulatory Consistency Face Some Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Swift I. The Perceived Effect of Hidden Costs on the Operational Management of Information Technology Outsourcing: A Qualitative Study. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2011.

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]

Harris G, Shear MD, Nixon R. Court Opinion Lets U.S. Start Ban on Travel. New York Times 2017:A1.

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	Cytotherapy
Abbreviation	Cytotherapy
ISSN (print)	1465-3249
Scope	Cancer Research Cell Biology Immunology Genetics(clinical) Immunology and Allergy Oncology Transplantation