How to format your references using the Human Cell citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Human Cell. 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

1. Dominissini D. Genomics and Proteomics. Roadmap to the epitranscriptome. Science. 2014;346:1192.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Tatar M, Rand DM. Aging. Dietary advice on Q. Science. 2002;295:54–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Rapp RP, Shimizu N, Norman MD. Growth of early continental crust by partial melting of eclogite. Nature. 2003;425:605–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Garrido JJ, Giraud P, Carlier E, Fernandes F, Moussif A, Fache M-P, et al. A targeting motif involved in sodium channel clustering at the axonal initial segment. Science. 2003;300:2091–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Saghyan AS, Langer P. Asymmetric Synthesis of Non&;#x02010;Proteinogenic Amino Acids. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley&;#x02010;VCH Verlag GmbH &;#38; Co. KGaA; 2016.

An edited book

1. Jaffray DA, editor. World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, June 7-12, 2015, Toronto, Canada. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Shima H. Geometry of Hessian Structures. In: Nielsen F, Barbaresco F, editors. Geometric Science of Information: First International Conference, GSI 2013, Paris, France, August 28-30, 2013 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 37–55.

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 Human Cell.

Blog post

1. Taub B. Sleepwalkers Who Injure Themselves Don’t Feel Pain Until They Wake Up [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/sleepwalkers-who-injure-themselves-don-t-feel-pain-until-they-wake/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Defaulted Loans Under the Guaranteed Student Loan Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973 Nov. Report No.: B-117604(7).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. McFarland-Mancini M. Prolactin Production by Human Breast Adipose Tissue and Adipocytes [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2006.

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

1. Billard M. Shop Till You’re Thirsty. New York Times. 2010 May 27;E6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Human Cell
Abbreviation	Hum. Cell
ISSN (online)	1749-0774
Scope	Cancer Research Cell Biology General Medicine

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