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]

Lippard SJ. Obituary: Frank Albert Cotton (1930-2007). Nature 2007;446:626.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Noriega C, Araujo M. Carbon dioxide emissions from estuaries of northern and northeastern Brazil. Sci Rep 2014;4:6164.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Eerenstein W, Mathur ND, Scott JF. Multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials. Nature 2006;442:759–65.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hou J, Cao C, Ma X, Idrees F, Xu B, Hao X, et al. From rice bran to high energy density supercapacitors: a new route to control porous structure of 3D carbon. Sci Rep 2014;4:7260.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Vettese F. The Essential Retirement Guide. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Singh M, editor. Research in Computational Molecular Biology: 20th Annual Conference, RECOMB 2016, Santa Monica, CA, USA, April 17-21, 2016, Proceedings. vol. 9649. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Weinberger MM. The Habit Cough Syndrome and Its Variations. In: Anbar RD, editor. Functional Respiratory Disorders: When Respiratory Symptoms Do Not Respond to Pulmonary Treatment, Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2012, p. 89–103.

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 E. This Book Could Save Lives By Purifying Drinking Water. 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. Education and Employment Issue Area: Active Assignments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Tomlinson KL. Working with the imaginal: Art-making and dialogue with figures of soul. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2008.

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]

Yancy G. I Am a Dangerous Professor. New York Times 2016:SR7.

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