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 (SCD). 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

Lowry AR. Resonant slow fault slip in subduction zones forced by climatic load stress. Nature 2006;442(7104):802–805.

A journal article with 2 authors

Saunders MA, Lea AS. Seasonal prediction of hurricane activity reaching the coast of the United States. Nature 2005;434(7036):1005–1008.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gupta R, He Z, Luan S. Functional relationship of cytochrome c(6) and plastocyanin in Arabidopsis. Nature 2002;417(6888):567–571.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mochizuki N, Yamashita S, Kurokawa K, et al. Spatio-temporal images of growth-factor-induced activation of Ras and Rap1. Nature 2001;411(6841):1065–1068.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Corley RHV, Tinker PB. The Oil Palm. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2015.

An edited book

Assmann A, Detmers I, (eds). Empathy and Its Limits. Palgrave Macmillan UK: London; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Mazurek K. Transformation of the Structure of the River Catchment Landscape Located in the Area of Intensive Coal Exploitation. In: Landscape Analysis and Planning: Geographical Perspectives. (Luc M, Somorowska U, Szmańda JB. eds). Springer Geography Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2015; pp. 81–90.

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

O`Callaghan J. NASA’s Asteroid-Sampling Spacecraft Has Now Been Fully Built Ahead Of Its 2016 Launch. IFLScience; 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasas-asteroid-sampling-spacecraft-has-now-been-fully-built-ahead-its-2016-launch/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Mass Transit Grants: If Properly Implemented, FTA Initiatives Should Improve Oversight. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Jategaonkar SP. Two Essays on Stock Repurchases and Insider Trading. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ; 2009.

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

Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times 2017;MM22.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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