How to format your references using the Histochemistry and Cell Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Histochemistry and 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

Gewin V (2008) The new networking nexus. Nature 451:1024–1025

A journal article with 2 authors

Pedraza JM, Paulsson J (2008) Effects of molecular memory and bursting on fluctuations in gene expression. Science 319:339–343

A journal article with 3 authors

Barnes SE, Ieda J, Maekawa S (2014) Rashba spin-orbit anisotropy and the electric field control of magnetism. Sci Rep 4:4105

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Grimson MJ, Coates JC, Reynolds JP, et al (2000) Adherens junctions and beta-catenin-mediated cell signalling in a non-metazoan organism. Nature 408:727–731

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hetherington S (2011) How to Know. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Murgante B, Misra S, Carlini M, et al (eds) (2013) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2013: 13th International Conference, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, June 24-27, 2013, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Janocha H (2008) Piezoelectric Drives. In: Kallenbach E, Stölting H-D, Amrhein W (eds) Handbook of Fractional-Horsepower Drives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 317–345

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 Histochemistry and Cell Biology.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2016) How Deadly Is Your Dog’s Saliva? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-deadly-is-your-dogs-saliva/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2001) Public Education: Meeting the Needs of Students With Limited English Proficiency. 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

Cleveland JD (2014) A comparative study of genetic diversities among exploited flatfishes of the California Slope with emphasis on Dover sole (Microstomus pacificus). Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kishkovsky S (2008) Georgian Church Envoys Meet With Russian Official. 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 (Gewin 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Pedraza and Paulsson 2008; Gewin 2008).

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

Two authors: (Pedraza and Paulsson 2008)
Three or more authors: (Grimson et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Histochemistry and Cell Biology
Abbreviation	Histochem. Cell Biol.
ISSN (print)	0948-6143
ISSN (online)	1432-119X
Scope	Cell Biology Molecular Biology Histology Medical Laboratory Technology