How to format your references using the In Silico Cell and Tissue Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for In Silico Cell and Tissue Science. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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. Driehuys B. Chemistry. Toward molecular imaging with xenon MRI. Science. 2006;314:432–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Pontzen A, Governato F. Cold dark matter heats up. Nature. 2014;506:171–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Alarousu E, AlSaggaf A, Jabbour GE. Online monitoring of printed electronics by Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1562.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Liang W, Bockrath M, Bozovic D, Hafner JH, Tinkham M, Park H. Fabry - Perot interference in a nanotube electron waveguide. Nature. 2001;411:665–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Parker D. Global Real Estate Investment Trusts. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

1. Bondyrev IV. The Geography of Georgia: Problems and Perspectives. Davitashvili ZV, Singh VP, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Grimm S, Watzke M, Hubauer T, Cescolini F. Embedded $\mathcal{EL}$ + Reasoning on Programmable Logic Controllers. In: Cudré-Mauroux P, Heflin J, Sirin E, Tudorache T, Euzenat J, Hauswirth M, et al., editors. The Semantic Web – ISWC 2012: 11th International Semantic Web Conference, Boston, MA, USA, November 11-15, 2012, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 66–81.

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 In Silico Cell and Tissue Science.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. What Is Going On In Your Brain When You Sleep? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-going-your-brain-when-you-sleep/

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. Federal Software Licenses: Better Management Needed to Achieve Significant Savings Government-Wide. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 May. Report No.: GAO-14-413.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Eldridge RL. A Comparative Quantitative Study of Private College Audit Fee Behavior in a Highly Regulated Environment [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 2012.

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. Barron J. The Lost Battle That Helped Win the Revolution. New York Times. 2016 Aug 27;A15.

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	In Silico Cell and Tissue Science
Abbreviation	In Silico Cell Tissue Sci.
ISSN (online)	2196-050X
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