How to format your references using the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cellular Biochemistry (JCB). 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

Moore P. 2005. Hot from the vent. Nature 435(7039):235.

A journal article with 2 authors

Navarro M, Gull K. 2001. A pol I transcriptional body associated with VSG mono-allelic expression in Trypanosoma brucei. Nature 414(6865):759–763.

A journal article with 3 authors

Staver AC, Archibald S, Levin SA. 2011. The global extent and determinants of savanna and forest as alternative biome states. Science 334(6053):230–232.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ji Q, Luo Z-X, Yuan C-X, Tabrum AR. 2006. A swimming mammaliaform from the Middle Jurassic and ecomorphological diversification of early mammals. Science 311(5764):1123–1127.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bauer E. 2010. Design for Reliability. Hoboken, NJ:John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bahadur B, Sujatha M, Carels N, editors. 2013. Jatropha, Challenges for a New Energy Crop: Volume 2: Genetic Improvement and Biotechnology. New York, NY:Springer. XVIII, 614 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Penkova T. 2014. Method of Wellbeing Estimation in Territory Management. In: Murgante B, Misra S, Rocha AMAC, Torre C, Rocha JG, Falcão MI, Taniar D, Apduhan BO, Gervasi O, editors. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2014: 14th International Conference, Guimarães, Portugal, June 30 – July 3, 2014, Proceedings, Part IV. Cham:Springer International Publishing. p 57–68.

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 Cellular Biochemistry.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2015. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 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. 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Frederick K. 2009.

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

Walsh MW. 2016. New York Times.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Cellular Biochemistry
ISSN (print)	0730-2312
ISSN (online)	1097-4644
Scope