How to format your references using the European Journal of Cell Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Cell Biology. 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

Blowes, D., 2002. Environmental chemistry. Tracking hexavalent Cr in groundwater. Science 295, 2024–2025.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eliades, S.J., Wang, X., 2008. Neural substrates of vocalization feedback monitoring in primate auditory cortex. Nature 453, 1102–1106.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aubret, F., Shine, R., Bonnet, X., 2004. Evolutionary biology: adaptive developmental plasticity in snakes. Nature 431, 261–262.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Garg, V., Muth, A.N., Ransom, J.F., Schluterman, M.K., Barnes, R., King, I.N., Grossfeld, P.D., Srivastava, D., 2005. Mutations in NOTCH1 cause aortic valve disease. Nature 437, 270–274.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El-Reedy, M.A., 2016. Project Management in the Oil and Gas Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bankoff, G., Christensen, J. (Eds.), 2016. Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian Ocean World: Bordering on Danger, Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Bruno, R., Carbone, V., 2016. Compressive Turbulence, in: Carbone, V. (Ed.), Turbulence in the Solar Wind, Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 153–167.

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 European Journal of Cell Biology.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2016. Internal Compass Guides Deer Fleeing From Carnivores [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/internal-compass-guides-deer-fleeing-from-carnivores/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2009. Financial Management Systems: OMB’s Financial Management Line of Business Initiative Continues but Future Success Remains Uncertain (No. GAO-09-328). 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

Do, N.H., 2012. An examination of support systems to enable Vietnamese immigrants to acquire English skills (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Barnard, A., Kirkpatrick, D.D., 2017. 5 Arab Nations Put U.S. in Jam As They Move to Isolate Qatar. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Blowes, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Blowes, 2002; Eliades and Wang, 2008).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Eliades and Wang, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Garg et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Cell Biology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Cell Biol.
ISSN (print)	0171-9335
Scope	Cell Biology General Medicine Histology Pathology and Forensic Medicine