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

Pagel, M. (2008). Rise of the digital machine. Nature, 452(7188), 699.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carter, L. J., & Pigford, T. H. (2005). Nuclear waste. Proof of safety at Yucca Mountain. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5747), 447–448.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ganem, N. J., Godinho, S. A., & Pellman, D. (2009). A mechanism linking extra centrosomes to chromosomal instability. Nature, 460(7252), 278–282.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zeng, X., Kieffer, R., Glettner, B., Nürnberger, C., Liu, F., Pelz, K., … Ungar, G. (2011). Complex multicolor tilings and critical phenomena in tetraphilic liquid crystals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6022), 1302–1306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Martinelli, R. J., & Milosevic, D. Z. (2015). Project Management ToolBox. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Büchi, F. N., Inaba, M., & Schmidt, T. J. (Eds.). (2009). Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Durability. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mandl, C., Hauser, M., & Mandl, H. (2013). Interdependency of Meetings and Organizations. In M. Hauser & H. Mandl (Eds.), The Co-creative Meeting: Practicing Consensual Effectivity in Organizations (pp. 21–27). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, June 23). New Smart Insulin Patch Could Be a ‘Game Changer.’ IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-smart-insulin-patch-could-be-game-changer/

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. (1995). Student Financial Aid: Data Not Fully Utilized to Identify Inappropriately Awarded Loans and Grants (No. T-HEHS-95-199). 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

Starner, R. N. (2013). Expanding the Scope of Silyl Protecting Groups for Sialylation Reactions (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

CHARKES; Mary Jo, J., & Reporting, L. S. C. (2009, April 26). A Spring Surprise: Openings in Preschools. New York Times, p. WE1.

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