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

Jayaraman KS. 2003. India budgets for boost in research. Nature 422:6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Khosla C, Tang Y. 2005. Chemistry. A new route to designer antibiotics. Science 308:367–368.

A journal article with 3 authors

Laporte SA, Oakley RH, Caron MG. 2001. Signal transduction. Bringing channels closer to the action! Science 293:62–63.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wilman RJ, Gerssen J, Bower RG, Morris SL, Bacon R, de Zeeuw PT, Davies RL. 2005. The discovery of a galaxy-wide superwind from a young massive galaxy at redshift z approximately 3. Nature 436:227–229.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Makishima A. 2016. Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry (TIMS). Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

2016. Islamic Finance: Principles, Performance and Prospects. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Koshy K, Stevenson LA, Boonjawat J, Campbell JR, Ebi KL, Lotia H, Zondervan R. 2014. Climate and Society, p. 199–252. In Manton, M, Stevenson, LA (eds.), Climate in Asia and the Pacific: Security, Society and Sustainability. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

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 D. 2017. Now For Some Good News: Regular Sex Benefits Your Mental Health, Too. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/now-for-some-good-news-regular-sex-benefits-your-mental-health-too/. 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. 2006. Aviation Security: Significant Management Challenges May Adversely Affect Implementation of the Transportation Security Administration’s Secure Flight Program. GAO-06-374T. 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

Kunihiro AG. 2014. The relationship between dietary omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acid intake and colorectal cancer. 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

Wagner J. 2017. Beefier Syndergaard Envisions a Fastball With Even More Heft. 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