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. Willyard C. Risk factors: riddle of the rays. Nature. 2014;515:S112-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Showalter MR, Hamilton DP. Resonant interactions and chaotic rotation of Pluto’s small moons. Nature. 2015;522:45–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Suttmeier RP, Cao C, Simon DF. Priorities and funding. “Knowledge innovation” and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Science. 2006;312:58–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Cockcroft CE, den Boer BG, Healy JM, Murray JA. Cyclin D control of growth rate in plants. Nature. 2000;405:575–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kontush A, Chapman MJ. High-Density Lipoproteins. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Aizawa K, Nakamura Y, Satoh S, editors. Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2004: 5th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Tokyo, Japan, November 30 - December 3, 2004. Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Schubert K-D. Verification Challenges of Workload Optimized Hardware Systems. In: Eder K, Lourenço J, Shehory O, editors. Hardware and Software: Verification and Testing: 7th International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2011, Haifa, Israel, December 6-8, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 4–4.

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. Ravens Have Social Abilities Previously Only Seen In Humans [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ravens-have-social-abilities-previously-only-seen-humans/

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 Research: Policies Guiding the Dissemination of Scientific Research from Selected Agencies Should Be Clarified and Better Communicated. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 May. Report No.: GAO-07-653.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Shabalin AA. Detection of low rank signals in noise and fast correlation mining with applications to large biological data [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2010.

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. Faces Change for Yanks, but Postseason Focus Doesn’t. New York Times. 2010 Oct 7;B17.

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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