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

Nusse R (2015) Cell signalling: Disarming Wnt. Nature 519:163–164

A journal article with 2 authors

Cooper BG, Goller F (2004) Multimodal signals: enhancement and constraint of song motor patterns by visual display. Science 303:544–546

A journal article with 3 authors

Grosenick L, Clement TS, Fernald RD (2007) Fish can infer social rank by observation alone. Nature 445:429–432

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wu C, Miloslavskaya I, Demontis S, et al (2004) Regulation of cellular response to oncogenic and oxidative stress by Seladin-1. Nature 432:640–645

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alexandrovna MI, Ionin BI, Tebby JC (2013) Alkynes in Cycloadditions. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Kountchev R, Iantovics B (eds) (2013) Advances in Intelligent Analysis of Medical Data and Decision Support Systems. Springer International Publishing, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Capitelli M, Colonna G, D’Angola A (2012) Atomic Partition Function. In: Colonna G, D’Angola A (eds) Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics: Thermodynamics. Springer, New York, NY, pp 61–78

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

Davis J (2015) Tracking Tiger Sharks Reveals Bird-Like Migration. In: IFLScience. 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 (1988) Space Exploration: Cost, Schedule, and Performance of NASA’s Ulysses Mission to the Sun. 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

Porter J (2010) Closing the classroom door: Denying the political, embracing the moral. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Ruprecht T (2010) High-School Redux. New York Times MM50

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nusse 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Cooper and Goller 2004; Nusse 2015).

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

Two authors: (Cooper and Goller 2004)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al. 2004)

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