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

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

Scully, T., 2013. Tuberculosis. Nature 502, S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clift, P.D., Blusztajn, J., 2005. Reorganization of the western Himalayan river system after five million years ago. Nature 438, 1001–1003.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chan, P., Curtis, R.A., Warwicker, J., 2013. Soluble expression of proteins correlates with a lack of positively-charged surface. Sci. Rep. 3, 3333.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bierman, M.J., Lau, Y.K.A., Kvit, A.V., Schmitt, A.L., Jin, S., 2008. Dislocation-driven nanowire growth and Eshelby twist. Science 320, 1060–1063.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Linacre, A.M.T., Tobe, S.S., 2013. Wildlife DNA Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Faletti, C. (Ed.), 2016. Traumatologia scheletrica: Imaging integrato clinico-radiologico. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, A., Kim, E., 2016. Spatial Agglomeration and Firm Performance in Korean Manufacturing Industry, 2012, in: Kim, E., Kim, B.H.S. (Eds.), Quantitative Regional Economic and Environmental Analysis for Sustainability in Korea, New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives. Springer, Singapore, pp. 89–104.

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 Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Extremely Rare Siamese Lizard Twins Found In German Zoo [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2000. Bank Regulators’ Evaluation of Electronic Signature Systems (No. GAO-01-129R). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tian, C.Y., 2010. Studies of equilibrium conditions in housing markets (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Saslow, L., 2007. Nassau Taking Steps Against Feral Cats. New York Times LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scully, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Clift and Blusztajn, 2005; Scully, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Clift and Blusztajn, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Bierman et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Stem Cell Research
Abbreviation	Stem Cell Res.
ISSN (print)	1873-5061
Scope	Cell Biology Developmental Biology General Medicine