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

Cassman, M., 2005. Barriers to progress in systems biology. Nature 438, 1079.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gray, R.D., Jordan, F.M., 2000. Language trees support the express-train sequence of Austronesian expansion. Nature 405, 1052–1055.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wessling, M., Morcillo, L.G., Abdu, S., 2014. Nanometer-thick lateral polyelectrolyte micropatterns induce macrosopic electro-osmotic chaotic fluid instabilities. Sci. Rep. 4, 4294.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stengel, K.F., Holdermann, I., Cain, P., Robinson, C., Wild, K., Sinning, I., 2008. Structural basis for specific substrate recognition by the chloroplast signal recognition particle protein cpSRP43. Science 321, 253–256.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwarz, D.R., 2014. Reading the European Novel to 1900. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Unger, H., Kyamaky, K., Kacprzyk, J. (Eds.), 2012. Autonomous Systems: Developments and Trends, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Xia, Y., Fu, M., 2013. The Descriptions of Flight Vehicle, in: Fu, M. (Ed.), Compound Control Methodology for Flight Vehicles, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 55–64.

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

Luntz, S., 2014. Supersonic Submarine Could Travel From Shanghai to San Francisco in 100 Minutes [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/supersonic-submarine-could-travel-shanghai-san-francisco-100-minutes/ (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, 1990. Telecommunications: Issues Concerning Licensing of Telecommunications Engineers and Technicians (No. RCED-90-106FS). 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

Grigoryan, A., 2015. Feedback 2.0 in online writing instruction: Combining audio-visual and text-based commentary to enhance student revision and writing competency (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Chapman, M.M., 2011. Michigan: Koran-Burning Pastor Draws a Boisterous Crowd. New York Times A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cassman, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Cassman, 2005; Gray and Jordan, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Gray and Jordan, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Stengel et al., 2008)

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