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

Watt, F. M. (2014). Mammalian skin cell biology: at the interface between laboratory and clinic. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6212), 937–940.

A journal article with 2 authors

Matouschek, A., & Finley, D. (2012). Cell biology. An ancient portal to proteolysis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6096), 813–814.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nishida, N., Katamine, S., & Manuelidis, L. (2005). Reciprocal interference between specific CJD and scrapie agents in neural cell cultures. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5747), 493–496.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hanikenne, M., Talke, I. N., Haydon, M. J., Lanz, C., Nolte, A., Motte, P., … Krämer, U. (2008). Evolution of metal hyperaccumulation required cis-regulatory changes and triplication of HMA4. Nature, 453(7193), 391–395.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henry-Labordère, A. (2009). Virtual Roaming Systems for GSM, GPRS and UMTS. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Zuccon, G., Geva, S., Joho, H., Scholer, F., Sun, A., & Zhang, P. (Eds.). (2015). Information Retrieval Technology: 11th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2015, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, December 2-4, 2015. Proceedings (1st ed. 2015., Vol. 9460). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Caldarini, C., Catalano, P., Piccioli, A., Spinelli, M. S., & Zavaroni, F. (2015). Joint Degenerative Pathologies. In V. Gazzaniga & P. Catalano (Eds.), Bones: Orthopaedic Pathologies in Roman Imperial Age (pp. 83–101). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Fang, J. (2014, April 24). Manhattan Flood Risk Up 20-Fold Since 19th Century. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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. (2012). Highway Projects: Survey of State Departments of Transportation (GAO-12-637SP, June 2012), an E-supplement to GAO-12-593 (No. GAO-12-637SP). 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

Zhu, Z. (2010). Financial restatements: Implications for management earnings forecasts (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

Shpigel, B. (2017, May 22). From Hockey 101 to a Ph.D. New York Times, p. D1.

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