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

Nurse P. 2008. Life, logic and information. Nature 454:424–426.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sun F, He S. 2014. Transformation magneto-statics and illusions for magnets. Sci Rep 4:6593.

A journal article with 3 authors

Piovia-Scott J, Spiller DA, Schoener TW. 2011. Effects of experimental seaweed deposition on lizard and ant predation in an island food web. Science 331:461–463.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen S, Yoshita M, Ishikawa A, Mochizuki T, Maruyama S, Akiyama H, Hayamizu Y, Pfeiffer LN, West KW. 2013. Intrinsic radiative lifetime derived via absorption cross section of one-dimensional excitons. Sci Rep 3:1941.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

MacIsaac B, Langton R. 2011. Gas Turbine Propulsion Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Stanescu L. 2012. Creating New Medical Ontologies for Image Annotation: A Case Study. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Madanhire I, Mbohwa C. 2016. Green Lubricant Design and Practice Concept, p. 47–58. In Mbohwa, C (ed.), Mitigating Environmental Impact of Petroleum Lubricants. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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

Andrew E. 2016. How’s Your Walnut, Mate? Why Men Don’t Like To Talk About Their Enlarged Prostate. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-s-your-walnut-mate-why-men-don-t-talk-about-their-enlarged-prostate/. 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. 1977. The Impact of Federal Commodity Donations on the School Lunch Program. CED-77-32. 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

Verderame N. 2013. An educational curriculum for registered dietitians to educate obese patients on the nutrition approach for stress management. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Karr M. 2010. JAN. 15, 2006: Thanks for The Memoirs. 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