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

Mawer S. Science in literature. Nature 2005;434:297–299.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dauphas N, Pourmand A. Hf-W-Th evidence for rapid growth of Mars and its status as a planetary embryo. Nature 2011;473:489–492.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kingon AI, Maria JP, Streiffer SK. Alternative dielectrics to silicon dioxide for memory and logic devices. Nature 2000;406:1032–1038.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tian M, Ning W, Qu Z, et al. Dual evidence of surface Dirac states in thin cylindrical topological insulator Bi₂Te₃ nanowires. Sci Rep 2013;3:1212.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cicek V, Al-Numan B. Corrosion Chemistry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

Glesner M, Reis R, Indrusiak L, et al., editors. VLSI-SOC: From Systems to Chips: IFIP TC 10/ WG 10.5 Twelfth International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration of System on Chip (VLSI-SoC 2003), December 1–3, 2003, Darmstadt, Germany. vol. 200. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Gent MRA. On the Stability of Rock Slopes. In: Zimmermann C, Dean RG, Penchev V, et al., eds. Environmentally Friendly Coastal Protection: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Environmentally Friendly Coastal Protection Structures Varna, Bulgaria 25–27 May 2004, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2005:73–92.

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

Davis J. Researchers Trick Migrating Song Birds By Altering The Magnetic Field They’re Exposed To. IFLScience 2015.

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. Digests of Unpublished Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. II, No. 12. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Glasgow HL. Design and Selection of Probes for In Vivo Molecular Targeting and Imaging. 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

As Told to. WHY WE TRAVEL | MOSCOW. New York Times 2007:517.

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