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

Kaiser, J., 2000. ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT: Ecologists Hope to Avoid the Mistakes of Previous Assessment. Science 289, 1677.

A journal article with 2 authors

Adlam, B., Nowak, M.A., 2014. Universality of fixation probabilities in randomly structured populations. Sci. Rep. 4, 6692.

A journal article with 3 authors

George, A.M., Iñiguez, J., Bellaiche, L., 2001. Anomalous properties in ferroelectrics induced by atomic ordering. Nature 413, 54–57.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bragina, A., Berg, C., Müller, H., Moser, D., Berg, G., 2013. Insights into functional bacterial diversity and its effects on Alpine bog ecosystem functioning. Sci. Rep. 3, 1955.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murdoch, I., Turpin, S., Johnston, B., MacLullich, A., Losman, E., 2014. Geriatric Emergencies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Giovanella, L., Treglia, G., Valcavi, R. (Eds.), 2016. Atlas of Head and Neck Endocrine Disorders: Special Focus on Imaging and Imaging-Guided Procedures, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

El Maliani, A.D., El Hassouni, M., Berthoumieu, Y., Aboutajdine, D., 2012. Multi-model Approach for Multicomponent Texture Classification, in: Elmoataz, A., Mammass, D., Lezoray, O., Nouboud, F., Aboutajdine, D. (Eds.), Image and Signal Processing: 5th International Conference, ICISP 2012, Agadir, Morocco, June 28-30, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 36–44.

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

Taub, B., 2016. Your Dog’s Brain Can Understand What You Say And How You Say It [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dogs-brain-understand-say-how-say/ (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, 2000. Export Controls: National Security Risks and Revisions to Controls on Computer Systems (No. T-NSIAD-00-139). 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

Medlej, M., 2017. Assessing the Probability of Prototyping Success in Systems Acquisitions (APOPS) (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Nir, S.M., 2016. A Gasoline Desert Expands on an Island of Many Cars. New York Times A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kaiser, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Adlam and Nowak, 2014; Kaiser, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Adlam and Nowak, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Bragina 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

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