How to format your references using the Stem Cells Translational Medicine citation style

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

Southwell K. Quantum coherence. Nature 2008;453:1003.

A journal article with 2 authors

Feldman DE, Brecht M. Map plasticity in somatosensory cortex. Science 2005;310:810–815.

A journal article with 3 authors

Libby P, Ridker PM, Hansson GK. Progress and challenges in translating the biology of atherosclerosis. Nature 2011;473:317–325.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jørgensen R, Merrill AR, Yates SP, et al. Exotoxin A-eEF2 complex structure indicates ADP ribosylation by ribosome mimicry. Nature 2005;436:979–984.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walker C, Fincham B. Work and the Mental Health Crisis in Britain. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2011.

An edited book

Bräse S, editor. Combinatorial Chemistry on Solid Supports. vol. 278. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Richter MM, Weber RO. Case Representations. In: Weber RO, ed. Case-Based Reasoning: A Textbook, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013:87–111.

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 Translational Medicine.

Blog post

Carpineti A. An Unseen Asteroid Passed Very Close To Earth Last Sunday. IFLScience 2016.

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. Biotechnology: Information on Prices of Genetically Modified Seeds in the United States and Argentina. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Maranhao B. Efficient identification of disease causative mutations with next generation sequencing technologies. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, 2015.

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

Poniewozik J. Clash of the Gossip Girls. New York Times 2017:C1.

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 Translational Medicine
Abbreviation	Stem Cells Transl. Med.
ISSN (print)	2157-6564
ISSN (online)	2157-6580
Scope	Cell Biology Developmental Biology General Medicine