How to format your references using the Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling. 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

Cullen BR (2007) Immunology. Outwitted by viral RNAs. Science 317:329–330

A journal article with 2 authors

Hayes RA, Feenstra BJ (2003) Video-speed electronic paper based on electrowetting. Nature 425:383–385

A journal article with 3 authors

Gravina B, Mellars P, Ramsey CB (2005) Radiocarbon dating of interstratified Neanderthal and early modern human occupations at the Chatelperronian type-site. Nature 438:51–56

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Grüninger M, Rückamp R, Windt M, et al (2002) Experimental quest for orbital waves. Nature 418:39–40; discussion 40

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leleux B, van Swaay H, Megally E (2015) Private Equity 4.0. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Yamazaki H (ed) (2014) Fifty Years of Cytochrome P450 Research. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Ricciardi F (2008) The Tacking Knowledge Strategy Claudio Ciborra, Konrad Lorenz and the Ecology of Information Systems. In: Marco MD, Casalino N (eds) Interdisciplinary Aspects of Information Systems Studies: The Italian Association for Information Systems. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg, pp 23–29

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 Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Could Be Suitable For Primitive Life. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/saturns-moon-could-be-suitable-early-life/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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

Government Accountability Office (1994) Early Childhood Programs: Parent Education and Income Best Predict Participation. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Soto M (2009) Barriers among Hispanic adults on dialysis that affect medication compliance. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Stewart JB (2016) Justifiably, This Buck Stopped With the Chief Executive. New York Times B3

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Cullen 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Hayes and Feenstra 2003; Cullen 2007).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Hayes and Feenstra 2003)
Three or more authors: (Grüninger et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling
Abbreviation	J. Cell Commun. Signal.
ISSN (print)	1873-9601
ISSN (online)	1873-961X
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Molecular Biology