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. Saibil HR. Biochemistry. Machinery to reverse irreversible aggregates. Science. 2013;339:1040–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Watanabe N, Mitchison TJ. Single-molecule speckle analysis of actin filament turnover in lamellipodia. Science. 2002;295:1083–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kumada N, Muraki K, Hirayama Y. Low-frequency spin dynamics in a canted antiferromagnet. Science. 2006;313:329–32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Scorrano L, Oakes SA, Opferman JT, Cheng EH, Sorcinelli MD, Pozzan T, et al. BAX and BAK regulation of endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+: a control point for apoptosis. Science. 2003;300:135–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cofnas A. Trading Binary Options. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Ohya M. Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Information and Computation and Its Applications to Nano- and Bio-systems. Volovich I, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Xuan G, Shi YQ, Chai P, Teng J, Ni Z, Tong X. Optimum Histogram Pair Based Image Lossless Data Embedding. In: Shi YQ, editor. Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security IV. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 84–102.

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. Four Myths About Allergies You Thought Were True – But Aren’t [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/four-myths-about-allergies-you-thought-were-true-aren-t/

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. Interactive Graphics in the United Kingdom. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Jan. Report No.: 098114.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ennaco WA. Mastering morphosyntax: A pre-experimental study on the effectiveness of a parent-training program for preschoolaged children with specific language impairment [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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. Vecsey G. A Football Program Ends. A Romance Doesn’t. New York Times. 2009 Dec 6;SP8.

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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