How to format your references using the Stem Cells and Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Stem Cells and Development. 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

1. Dyson G (2012). Turing centenary: The dawn of computing. Nature 482: 459–460.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Osterholm MT and DA Henderson (2012). Public health and biosecurity. Life sciences at a crossroads: respiratory transmissible H5N1. Science 335: 801–802.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. McPhaden MJ, SE Zebiak and MH Glantz (2006). ENSO as an integrating concept in earth science. Science 314: 1740–1745.

A journal article with 51 or more authors

1. Shao J, L Yuan, X Hu, Y Wu and Z Zhang (2014). The effect of nano confinement on the C-h activation and its corresponding structure-activity relationship. Sci Rep 4: 7225.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Stacey WM (2012). Fusion Plasma Physics (Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA).

An edited book

1. (2015). Inductive Logic Programming: 24th International Conference, ILP 2014, Nancy, France, September 14-16, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Cham: Springer International Publishing).

A chapter in an edited book

1. Pődör A (2011). The Methodological Advantages of using Web Server in Teaching GIS. In Advances in Cartography and GIScience. Volume 2: Selection from ICC 2011, Paris, Ruas, A, ed. (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), pp. 73–82.

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 Cells and Development.

Blog post

1. Andrew E (2014). Watch Scientists Dissect Colossal Squid LIVE (IFLScience).

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

1. Government Accountability Office (1998). FCC: Maritime Communications (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

1. Shaw RM (2012). The influence of organizational culture on employee attitudes towards information security policy. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University.

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

1. Chapman MM and B Vlasic (2016). Volvo Makes Comeback With Return to Its Values. New York Times B3.

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 Cells and Development
Abbreviation	Stem Cells Dev.
ISSN (print)	1547-3287
ISSN (online)	1557-8534
Scope	Cell Biology Developmental Biology Hematology