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

Ziff, R.M., 2013. Mathematics. Getting the jump on explosive percolation. Science 339, 1159–1160.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jakse, N., Pasturel, A., 2013. Liquid Aluminum: atomic diffusion and viscosity from ab initio molecular dynamics. Sci. Rep. 3, 3135.

A journal article with 3 authors

Park, I.-U., Peacey, M.W., Munafò, M.R., 2014. Modelling the effects of subjective and objective decision making in scientific peer review. Nature 506, 93–96.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dejea, C.M., Fathi, P., Craig, J.M., Boleij, A., Taddese, R., Geis, A.L., Wu, X., DeStefano Shields, C.E., Hechenbleikner, E.M., Huso, D.L., Anders, R.A., Giardiello, F.M., Wick, E.C., Wang, H., Wu, S., Pardoll, D.M., Housseau, F., Sears, C.L., 2018. Patients with familial adenomatous polyposis harbor colonic biofilms containing tumorigenic bacteria. Science 359, 592–597.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Silva Elipe, M.V., 2011. LC-NMR and Other Hyphenated NMR Techniques. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hope, D.A. (Ed.), 2009. Contemporary Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities, Nebraska Symposium on Motivation. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Maher, J.J., 2016. Pathogenesis of NAFLD and NASH, in: Chalasani, N., Szabo, G. (Eds.), Alcoholic and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Bench to Bedside. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 71–101.

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, D., 2016. What Does Empty Space Sound Like? We Need Your Help To Find Out [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-does-empty-space-sound-like-we-need-your-help-to-find-out/ (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, 1975. Problems in Administering Programs To Improve Law Enforcement Education (No. GGD-75-67). 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

Shah, R.A., 2010. Who am I? A biracial and interfaith woman’s perspective: A personal narrative (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

Stewart, J.B., 2016. Berlusconi a Precedent for Trump. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ziff, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Jakse and Pasturel, 2013; Ziff, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Jakse and Pasturel, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Dejea et al., 2018)

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