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

Busse, F.H., 2004. Physics. Visualizing the dynamics of the onset of turbulence. Science 305, 1574–1575.

A journal article with 2 authors

Waldmann, H., Cobbold, S., 2004. Exploiting tolerance processes in transplantation. Science 305, 209–212.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morens, D.M., Folkers, G.K., Fauci, A.S., 2004. The challenge of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Nature 430, 242–249.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lu, H., Seo, Y.-T., Lee, J.-W., Moudrakovski, I., Ripmeester, J.A., Chapman, N.R., Coffin, R.B., Gardner, G., Pohlman, J., 2007. Complex gas hydrate from the Cascadia margin. Nature 445, 303–306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schuenemeyer, J.H., Drew, L.J., 2010. Statistics for Earth and Environmental Scientists. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Nakamura, H. (Ed.), 2009. Electroporation and Sonoporation in Developmental Biology. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Triantafyllidis, T., Röchter, L., Niemunis, A., 2011. SHEAR BANDING IN GEOMATERIALS IN PLANE STRAIN: PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL MODELS, in: Borja, R.I. (Ed.), Multiscale and Multiphysics Processes in Geomechanics: Resultsof the Workshop on Multiscale and Multiphysics Processes in Geomechanics, Stanford, June 23–25, 2010, Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 13–16.

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

Taub, B., 2016. Most People Are Prone To “Remembering” Fake Events [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, 2006. Information Technology: Agencies and OMB Should Strengthen Processes for Identifying and Overseeing High Risk Projects (No. GAO-06-647). 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

Jakubowski, J.K., 2013. Making character education a reality: An investigation of secondary teachers’ perspectives toward implementation (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Grynbaum, M.M., 2017. Wall Street Journal’s Editor in Chief Admonishes Reporters Over Trump Coverage. New York Times B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Busse, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Busse, 2004; Waldmann and Cobbold, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Waldmann and Cobbold, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Lu et al., 2007)

About the journal

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