How to format your references using the The Cell Surface citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Cell Surface. 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

Bernardini, E., 2011. Astronomy. Astronomy in the time domain. Science 331, 686–687.

A journal article with 2 authors

Simmons, E.M., Hartwig, J.F., 2012. Catalytic functionalization of unactivated primary C-H bonds directed by an alcohol. Nature 483, 70–73.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jensen, R.B., Carreira, A., Kowalczykowski, S.C., 2010. Purified human BRCA2 stimulates RAD51-mediated recombination. Nature 467, 678–683.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ogawa, N., Hoshisashi, K., Sekiguchi, H., Ichiyanagi, K., Matsushita, Y., Hirohata, Y., Suzuki, S., Ishikawa, A., Sasaki, Y.C., 2013. Tracking 3D picometer-scale motions of single nanoparticles with high-energy electron probes. Sci. Rep. 3, 2201.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ginena, K., Hamid, A., 2015. Foundations of Sharī‘ah Governance of Islamic Banks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Hou, Z. (Ed.), 2012. Measuring Technology and Mechatronics Automation in Electrical Engineering, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Van Grembergen, W., De Haes, S., 2009. The IT Balanced Scorecard as a Framework for Enterprise Governance of IT, in: Van Grembergen, W. (Ed.), Enterprise Governance of Information Technology: Achieving Strategic Alignment and Value. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 111–136.

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 The Cell Surface.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2017. Forget Lab-Grown Meat, Eating Insects Is Best For The Planet [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2014. Federal Vehicle Collisions and Aftermarket Collision Avoidance Technologies (No. GAO-14-408R). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yamada, T., 2008. Comparison of cognitively diagnostic adaptive testing algorithms (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Rosenberg, E., Southall, A., 2016. De Blasio Calls Police Shooting ‘Unacceptable.’ New York Times A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Bernardini, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Bernardini, 2011; Simmons and Hartwig, 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Simmons and Hartwig, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Ogawa et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Cell Surface
ISSN (print)	2468-2330
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