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

Carr LD (2013) Physics. Negative temperatures? Science 339:42–43

A journal article with 2 authors

Filippov A, Gorb SN (2013) Frictional-anisotropy-based systems in biology: structural diversity and numerical model. Sci Rep 3:1240

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith ZM, Delgutte B, Oxenham AJ (2002) Chimaeric sounds reveal dichotomies in auditory perception. Nature 416:87–90

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gupta R, Hong D, Iborra F, et al (2007) NOV (CCN3) functions as a regulator of human hematopoietic stem or progenitor cells. Science 316:590–593

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lakshminarayana B (2007) Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer of Turbomachinery. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Dincer I, Hepbasli A, Midilli A, Karakoc TH (eds) (2010) Global Warming: Engineering Solutions. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Arrigoni P, Van Tongel A, Eygendaal D, et al (2014) Elbow Arthroscopy: From Basic to Advance. In: Zaffagnini S, Becker R, Kerkhoffs GMMJ, et al. (eds) ESSKA Instructional Course Lecture Book: Amsterdam 2014. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 41–46

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

Luntz S (2015) Flashy Fish Don’t Get Lucky. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/flashy-fish-dont-get-lucky/. 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 (2012) Environmental Satellites: Focused Attention Needed to Mitigate Program Risks. 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

Webb CT (2009) “The mirroring that binds into freedom”: Stevens, Jeffers, Heidegger and the inhuman. 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

Leland J (2017) ‘Weird Isn’t In Right Now.’ New York Times MB1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carr 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Carr 2013; Filippov and Gorb 2013).

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

Two authors: (Filippov and Gorb 2013)
Three or more authors: (Gupta et al. 2007)

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