How to format your references using the Journal of Cell Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cell 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	Download the output style file
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

Hustad, P. D. (2009). Frontiers in olefin polymerization: reinventing the world’s most common synthetic polymers. Science 325, 704–707.

A journal article with 2 authors

Huybers, P. and Curry, W. (2006). Links between annual, Milankovitch and continuum temperature variability. Nature 441, 329–332.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, J., Park, J. and Choi, C. (2014). Identification of phenotype deterministic genes using systemic analysis of transcriptional response. Sci. Rep. 4, 4413.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wilbanks, A. M., Fralish, G. B., Kirby, M. L., Barak, L. S., Li, Y.-X. and Caron, M. G. (2004). Beta-arrestin 2 regulates zebrafish development through the hedgehog signaling pathway. Science 306, 2264–2267.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Searle, S. R. (1997). Linear Models. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wiener, R. L., Bornstein, B. H., Schopp, R. and Willborn, S. L. eds. (2007). Social Consciousness in Legal Decision Making: Psychological Perspectives. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, N. L. (2007). Discovering Latent Structures: Experience with the CoIL Challenge 2000 Data Set. In Computational Science – ICCS 2007: 7th International Conference, Beijing, China, May 27 - 30, 2007, Proceedings, Part IV (ed. Shi, Y.), Albada, G. D. van), Dongarra, J.), and Sloot, P. M. A.), pp. 26–34. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Myth Of The ‘Missing Link’ In Evolution Does Science No Favors. IFLScience.

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 (1970). Utilization of Consultants, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Duley, L. A. (2012). A Qualitative Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of Women Remaining in Abusive Relationships.

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

Feeney, K. (2010). Always on Offer: Fresh Fish, a Relaxed Vibe. New York Times NJ5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hustad, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Hustad, 2009; Huybers and Curry, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Huybers and Curry, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Wilbanks et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Cell Science
Abbreviation	J. Cell Sci.
ISSN (print)	0021-9533
ISSN (online)	1477-9137
Scope	Cell Biology