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

Greenwood, B., 2004. Between hope and a hard place. Nature 430, 926–927.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crisp, R.J., Meleady, R., 2012. Adapting to a multicultural future. Science 336, 853–855.

A journal article with 3 authors

Newhall, C.G., Power, J.A., Punongbayan, R.S., 2002. Pinatubo eruption. “To make grow.” Science 295, 1241–1242.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ashrafi, K., Chang, F.Y., Watts, J.L., Fraser, A.G., Kamath, R.S., Ahringer, J., Ruvkun, G., 2003. Genome-wide RNAi analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans fat regulatory genes. Nature 421, 268–272.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Talbot, D.B., 2012. Frequency Acquisition Techniques for Phase Locked Loops. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Singh, H., 2015. Active Cancellation of Probing in Linear Dipole Phased Array, 1st ed. 2015. ed, SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Springer, Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

Barkowsky, T., 2007. Modeling Mental Spatial Knowledge Processing, in: Mast, F., Jäncke, L. (Eds.), Spatial Processing in Navigation, Imagery and Perception. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 67–84.

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, D., 2015. Snake Found In Bottled Water [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/live-baby-snake-found-health-ministers-bottled-water/ (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, 2006. Postsecondary Education: Multiple Tax Preferences and Title IV Student Aid Programs Create a Complex Education Financing Environment (No. GAO-07-262T). 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

Neilson, D.H., 2009. Structured interactions and collective outcomes essays on production and finance (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Hanc, J., 2017. Solitude on the Hudson River. New York Times F38.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Greenwood, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Crisp and Meleady, 2012; Greenwood, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Crisp and Meleady, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Ashrafi et al., 2003)

About the journal

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