How to format your references using the Stem Cell Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Stem Cell Reports. 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

Smetacek, V. (2002). Microbial food webs. The ocean’s veil. Nature 419, 565.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ash, C., and Jasny, B.R. (2005). Trypanosomatid genomes. Introduction. Science 309, 399.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ballester, G.E., Sing, D.K., and Herbert, F. (2007). The signature of hot hydrogen in the atmosphere of the extrasolar planet HD 209458b. Nature 445, 511–514.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lloyd-Fox, S., Papademetriou, M., Darboe, M.K., Everdell, N.L., Wegmuller, R., Prentice, A.M., Moore, S.E., and Elwell, C.E. (2014). Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to assess cognitive function in infants in rural Africa. Sci. Rep. 4, 4740.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zecchina, A., and Califano, S. (2017). The Development of Catalysis (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Hosseini, S. (2016). Novel Polymeric Biochips for Enhanced Detection of Infectious Diseases F. Ibrahim, ed. (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Bonadeo, C.M., Guidi, A., Straface, A., Marcotte, R.D., Bonadeo, C.M., Noble, S., Cottrell, E.J., Lahey, S.E., Burnett, C., Marenbon, J., et al. (2011). Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyāʾ (Rhazes). In Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, H. Lagerlund, ed. (Springer Netherlands), pp. 6–10.

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 Stem Cell Reports.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016). US National Security Could Be Severely Affected By Climate Change Over The Next 20 Years. 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 (1989). Adolph T. Samuelson, 1946-1975 (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

Bell, J. (2015). A phenomenological study of African American GS-13 to GS-15 managers within the federal government.

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

Vecsey, G. (2014). For Outsiders, Overuse Isn’t a Worry. New York Times, B14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Stem Cell Reports
Abbreviation	Stem Cell Reports
ISSN (online)	2213-6711
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Developmental Biology Genetics