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

Meselson M (2012) Retrospective. Paul Mead Doty (1920-2011). Science 335:181

A journal article with 2 authors

Pasare C, Medzhitov R (2003) Toll pathway-dependent blockade of CD4+CD25+ T cell-mediated suppression by dendritic cells. Science 299:1033–1036

A journal article with 3 authors

Garcia P, Armstrong R, Zaman MH (2014) Models of education in medicine, public health, and engineering. Science 345:1281–1283

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen J, Li X, Cheng C, et al (2014) Characterization of epistatic interaction of QTLs LH8 and EH3 controlling heading date in rice. Sci Rep 4:4263

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hadjsaïd N, Sabonnadière J-C (2013) Power Systems and Restructuring. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lun YHV (2016) Green Shipping Management, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Lesniewski P, Bartoszewicz A (2014) LQ Optimal Control of Periodic Review Perishable Inventories with Transportation Losses. In: Swiątek J, Grzech A, Swiątek P, Tomczak JM (eds) Advances in Systems Science: Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems Science 2013 (ICSS 2013). Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 45–55

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

Andrew E (2014) Is It Ok To Pee In The Ocean? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/it-ok-pee-ocean/. 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 (1981) Better Management Needed in Social Security Administration’s Toll-Free Telephone Service to the Public. 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

PerLee-Lange DL (2010) An introduction to the juvenile dependency court process and the child welfare system: A curriculum for parents. 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

Hodgman J (2017) Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM24

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Meselson 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Pasare and Medzhitov 2003; Meselson 2012).

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

Two authors: (Pasare and Medzhitov 2003)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2014)

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

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