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

Cammack, N., 2011. Microbiology. Exploiting malaria drug resistance to our advantage. Science 333, 705–706.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pasparakis, M., Vandenabeele, P., 2015. Necroptosis and its role in inflammation. Nature 517, 311–320.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoshimura, K., Onda, Y., Fukushima, T., 2014. Sediment particle size and initial radiocesium accumulation in ponds following the Fukushima DNPP accident. Sci. Rep. 4, 4514.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shahid, S., Kim, G., Johnson, N.R., Wafula, E., Wang, F., Coruh, C., Bernal-Galeano, V., Phifer, T., dePamphilis, C.W., Westwood, J.H., Axtell, M.J., 2018. MicroRNAs from the parasitic plant Cuscuta campestris target host messenger RNAs. Nature 553, 82–85.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alberty, R.A., 2011. Enzyme Kinetics: Rapid-Equilibrium Enzyme Kinetics, Methods of Biochemical Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kind, M., Peukert, W., Rehage, H., Schuchmann, H.P. (Eds.), 2015. Colloid Process Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Ameratunga, J., Sivakugan, N., Das, B.M., 2016. Cone Penetrometer Test, in: Sivakugan, N., Das, B.M. (Eds.), Correlations of Soil and Rock Properties in Geotechnical Engineering, Developments in Geotechnical Engineering. Springer India, New Delhi, pp. 115–157.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2016. A Version Of The EmDrive Is Apparently Being Sent To Space [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, 1991. Education’s Library: Actions Needed to Improve Its Usefulness (No. HRD-91-61). 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

Prophete, K.S., 2013. How race, gender, and Pell status affect the persistence and degree attainment rates of dual enrollment students (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Wagner, J., 2016. Cubs Pull Even as the Indians’ Play Proves Sloppier Than the Weather. New York Times B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cammack, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Cammack, 2011; Pasparakis and Vandenabeele, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Pasparakis and Vandenabeele, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Shahid et al., 2018)

About the journal

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