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

Treutlein P. 2012. Physics. A single spin feels the vibrations. Science 335(6076):1584–1585.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tam WY, Ma CHE. 2014. Bipolar/rod-shaped microglia are proliferating microglia with distinct M1/M2 phenotypes. Sci Rep 4:7279.

A journal article with 3 authors

Petrascheck M, Ye X, Buck LB. 2007. An antidepressant that extends lifespan in adult Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 450(7169):553–556.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Singh SC, Crawford WC, Carton H, Seher T, Combier V, Cannat M, Pablo Canales J, Düsünür D, Escartin J, Miranda JM. 2006. Discovery of a magma chamber and faults beneath a Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal field. Nature 442(7106):1029–1032.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chan NH, Wong HY. 2013. Handbook of Financial Risk Management. Hoboken, NJ:John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Holzinger A, Miesenberger K, editors. 2009. HCI and Usability for E-Inclusion: 5th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society, USAB 2009, Linz, Austria, November 9-10, 2009 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg:Springer. XVII, 554 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Ghosh AK. 2016. Extrusion of Multicomponent Product. In: Kim JK, Thomas S, Saha P, editors. Multicomponent Polymeric Materials. Dordrecht:Springer Netherlands. p 109–131.

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

Evans K. 2016. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sharks-and-rays-win-protected-status-at-wildlife-summit/. 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. 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Garza-Meza LE. 2013.

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

Pilon M. 2013. 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