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

Watzman, H. (2003). German researchers set to receive Israeli stem-cell shipment. Nature 421, 199.

A journal article with 2 authors

Remy, J.-J., and Hobert, O. (2005). An interneuronal chemoreceptor required for olfactory imprinting in C. elegans. Science 309, 787–790.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pavlidis, I., Eberhardt, N.L., and Levine, J.A. (2002). Seeing through the face of deception. Nature 415, 35.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kameyama, K., Kishi, Y., Yoshimura, M., Kanzawa, N., Sameshima, M., and Tsuchiya, T. (2000). Tyrosine phosphorylation in plant bending. Nature 407, 37.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Voldman, S.H. (2006). ESD (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd).

An edited book

Sadovnichiy, V.A., and Zgurovsky, M.Z. eds. (2015). Continuous and Distributed Systems II: Theory and Applications (Springer International Publishing).

A chapter in an edited book

Miftahof, R.N., and Nam, H.G. (2013). Essentials of the Theory of Soft Shells. In Biomechanics of the Human Urinary Bladder, H. G. Nam, ed. (Springer), pp. 53–71.

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

Andrew, D. (2016). No, Enjoying A Gin And Tonic Doesn’t Mean You’re A Psychopath. 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 (1997). Student Loans: Selected Characteristics of Schools in Two Major Federal Loan Programs (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

Kweider, N.M. (2014). Reading comprehension among Arabic Heritage Language Learners and the Simple View of Reading model.

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. (2016). Project Turns to Architect It Knows Well. New York Times, B8.

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