How to format your references using the Stem Cell Reviews and Reports citation style

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

O’Garra, A. (2013). Brigitte Askonas (1923-2013). Nature, 494(7435), 37.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wortmann, U. G., & Paytan, A. (2012). Rapid variability of seawater chemistry over the past 130 million years. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6092), 334–336.

A journal article with 3 authors

van Loenhout, M. T. J., de Grunt, M. V., & Dekker, C. (2012). Dynamics of DNA supercoils. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6103), 94–97.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Povich, M. S., Raymond, J. C., Jones, G. H., Uzzo, M., Ko, Y.-K., Feldman, P. D., … Woods, T. N. (2003). Doubly ionized carbon observed in the plasma tail of comet Kudo-Fujikawa. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5652), 1949–1952.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gray, D. F., & Malone, S. W. (2008). Macrofinancial Risk Analysis. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hatzfeld, C., & Kern, T. A. (Eds.). (2014). Engineering Haptic Devices: A Beginner’s Guide (2nd ed. 2014.). London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Amdam, S. H. (2016). The Dangers of having Fun – Doing Production Work in School. In O. Erstad, K. Kumpulainen, Å. Mäkitalo, K. C. Schrøder, P. Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, & T. Jóhannsdóttir (Eds.), Learning across Contexts in the Knowledge Society (pp. 85–108). Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

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 Reviews and Reports.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, September 28). Cosmonaut Rebuffs Sexist Questions. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/cosmonaut-rebuffs-sexist-questions/

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. (1991). Naval Safety School Relocation: More Credible Cost Analysis Is Needed (No. NSIAD-91-145). 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

Aggarwal, E. (2012). South Asian women’s attitudes toward help-seeking behaviors (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

Schlossberg, T., & Schwartz, J. (2017, January 10). A Bumblebee Gets New Protection on Obama’s Way Out. New York Times, p. A14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Stem Cell Reviews and Reports
Abbreviation	Stem Cell Rev.
ISSN (print)	1550-8943
ISSN (online)	1558-6804
Scope	Cancer Research Cell Biology General Medicine