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

Conselice, C.J. (2004). Astronomy. Unveiling the formation of massive galaxies. Science 304, 399–400. .

A journal article with 2 authors

Rowan, L., and Coontz, R. (2002). Great balls of fire. Star formation: a Web supplement. Science 295, 63. .

A journal article with 3 authors

Nakamura, K., Takahashi, Y., and Fujiwara, T. (2014). Low-temperature excess heat capacity in fresnoite glass and crystal. Sci. Rep. 4, 6523. .

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hou, J.G., Jinlong, Y., Haiqian, W., Qunxiang, L., Changgan, Z., Lanfeng, Y., Bing, W., Chen, D.M., and Qingshi, Z. (2001). Topology of two-dimensional C60 domains. Nature 409, 304–305. .

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Klöpffer, W. (2012). Verhalten und Abbau von Umweltchemikalien (Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA).

An edited book

(2009). Transmitters and Modulators in Health and Disease: New Frontiers in Neuroscience (Tokyo: Springer Japan).

A chapter in an edited book

Grancharova, A., and Johansen, T.A. (2012). Explicit NMPC via Approximate mp-NLP. In Explicit Nonlinear Model Predictive Control: Theory and Applications, T.A. Johansen, ed. (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), pp. 87–110.

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, E. (2014). Ebola Claims Lives of Five Study Co-Authors Before Paper Is Published (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 (2014). Air Traffic Control System: Selected Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Operations, Modernization, and Structure (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

Daysal, N.M. (2009). The effects of uninsurance on hospitals and patient health. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Hollander, S. (2002). Sailing Into Storms and Solitude. New York Times 812. .

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Conselice, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Conselice, 2004; Rowan and Coontz, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Rowan and Coontz, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Hou et al., 2001)

About the journal

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