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. Bhutta ZA. Infectious disease: Polio eradication hinges on child health in Pakistan. Nature. 2014;511:285–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lee WL, Grinstein S. Immunology. The tangled webs that neutrophils weave. Science. 2004;303:1477–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Liu H, Gao J, Zhao J. From boron cluster to two-dimensional boron sheet on Cu(111) surface: growth mechanism and hole formation. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3238.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wang Z, Tao P, Liu Y, Xu H, Ye Q, Hu H, et al. Rapid charging of thermal energy storage materials through plasmonic heating. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6246.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Wells JT. Corporate Fraud Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

1. Magnenat-Thalmann N, Zhang JJ, Feng DD, editors. Recent Advances in the 3D Physiological Human. London: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lausdahl K. Translating VDM to Alloy. In: Johnsen EB, Petre L, editors. Integrated Formal Methods: 10th International Conference, IFM 2013, Turku, Finland, June 10-14, 2013 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 46–60.

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. Fish Oil Or Snake Oil? Most Capsules Don’t Contain What They Promise [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/fish-oil-or-snake-oil-most-capsules-don-t-contain-what-they-promise/

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. Congressional Relations Activities, 1950-1983: Smith Blair, Charles E. Eckert, Martin J. Fitzgerald, and L. Fred Thompson. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Feb. Report No.: OP-14-OH.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mande M. Sisyphus’s Fault: How the Shifting Terrain of a Changing Institution Makes Curriculum Reform an “Impossible Task” [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Saslow L. Fears of Brown Tide in Suffolk Waters. New York Times. 2007 Jul 15;LI2.

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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