How to format your references using the Eukaryotic Cell citation style

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

Maxmen A. 2011. Pharmacogenomics: playing the odds. Nature 474:S9-10.

A journal article with 2 authors

Matthias S, Müller F. 2003. Asymmetric pores in a silicon membrane acting as massively parallel brownian ratchets. Nature 424:53–57.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mackenzie RB, Dewberry CT, Leopold KR. 2015. SULFUR CHEMISTRY. Gas phase observation and microwave spectroscopic characterization of formic sulfuric anhydride. Science 349:58–61.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stamper CC, Zhang Y, Tobin JF, Erbe DV, Ikemizu S, Davis SJ, Stahl ML, Seehra J, Somers WS, Mosyak L. 2001. Crystal structure of the B7-1/CTLA-4 complex that inhibits human immune responses. Nature 410:608–611.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Diver DA. 2013. Plasma Formulary for Physics, Astronomy, and Technology. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Smyth M. 2011. Solar Energy in the Winemaking Industry. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Ooi CC, Schindelhauer C. 2009. Energy-Efficient Distributed Target Tracking Using Wireless Relay Robots, p. 39–50. In Asama, H, Kurokawa, H, Ota, J, Sekiyama, K (eds.), Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Eukaryotic Cell.

Blog post

Fang J. 2015. Early Humans Could Have Been Using Tools 500,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/our-early-ancestors-had-hands-ours-capable-gripping-tools/. Retrieved 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. 1980. Comments on H.R. 6228. 112145. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Machula M. 2014. Understanding and Predicting Teachers’ Knowledge of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Sehgal P. 2017. McPhee on McPhee: A Master’s Valedictory Lap. New York Times.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Eukaryotic Cell
Abbreviation	Eukaryot. Cell
ISSN (print)	1535-9778
ISSN (online)	1535-9786
Scope	Molecular Biology Microbiology General Medicine