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

Chaddah, P. (2014). Not all plagiarism requires a retraction. Nature 511, 127.

A journal article with 2 authors

Emerson, B.C., and Kolm, N. (2005). Species diversity can drive speciation. Nature 434, 1015–1017.

A journal article with 3 authors

Logvenov, G., Gozar, A., and Bozovic, I. (2009). High-temperature superconductivity in a single copper-oxygen plane. Science 326, 699–702.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hamilton, J.T.G., McRoberts, W.C., Keppler, F., Kalin, R.M., and Harper, D.B. (2003). Chloride methylation by plant pectin: an efficient environmentally significant process. Science 301, 206–209.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huang, H.K. (2005). PACS and Imaging Informatics (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Chirico, G. (2015). Gold Nanostars: Synthesis, Properties and Biomedical Application 1st ed. 2015. M. Borzenkov and P. Pallavicini, eds. (Springer International Publishing).

A chapter in an edited book

Lapidus, M.L., and van Frankenhuijsen, M. (2013). Generalized Fractal Strings Viewed as Measures. In Fractal Geometry, Complex Dimensions and Zeta Functions: Geometry and Spectra of Fractal Strings Springer Monographs in Mathematics., M. van Frankenhuijsen, ed. (Springer), pp. 119–135.

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. (2017). Surprisingly, Bees Top The List Of Most Deadly Venomous Creatures In Australia. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/surprisingly-bees-top-the-list-of-most-deadly-venomous-creatures-in-australia/.

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 (2017). Discretionary Grants: Education Needs to Improve Its Oversight of Grants Monitoring (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

Soltani, A. (2015). Parenting and disciplinary practices of Iranian mothers: A quantitative study.

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

Barry, E., and Kramer, A.E. (2012). In Biting Cold, Protesters Pack the Center of Moscow to Rally Against Putin. New York Times, A8.

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

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