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

Cuk, M., 2007. Excitation of lunar eccentricity by planetary resonances. Science 318, 244.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miltat, J., Thiaville, A., 2002. Ferromagnetism. Vortex cores--smaller than small. Science 298, 555.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, C., Facchetti, A., Marks, T.J., 2007. Polymer gate dielectric surface viscoelasticity modulates pentacene transistor performance. Science 318, 76–80.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hamed, M., Khilji, S., Chen, J., Li, Q., 2013. Stepwise acetyltransferase association and histone acetylation at the Myod1 locus during myogenic differentiation. Sci. Rep. 3, 2390.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flood, J.M., 2014. Practitioner’s Guide to GAAS 2014. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

An edited book

Wynberg, R., Schroeder, D., Chennells, R. (Eds.), 2009. Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Benefit Sharing: Lessons from the San-Hoodia Case. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Hannallah, R.S., 2008. Pediatric perioperative management, in: Twersky, R.S., Philip, B.K. (Eds.), Handbook of Ambulatory Anesthesia. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 115–143.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Supergiant Gas Field In The Mediterranean Doubles Size Record [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1992. Biotechnology Regulation (No. RCED-92-217R). 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

Felsburg, D.F., 2008. The business of evangelism: A phenomenological study of frustration and attrition among Christian evangelists (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Williams, J., 2017. Podcast Therapy. New York Times BR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cuk, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Cuk, 2007; Miltat and Thiaville, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Miltat and Thiaville, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Hamed et al., 2013)

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