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

Macilwain, C., 2013. Halt the avalanche of performance metrics. Nature 500, 255.

A journal article with 2 authors

Graham, S., Hegde, D., 2015. Intellectual Property. Disclosing patents’ secrets. Science 347, 236–237.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tao, C., Cullen, W.G., Williams, E.D., 2010. Visualizing the electron scattering force in nanostructures. Science 328, 736–740.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lilic, M., Galkin, V.E., Orlova, A., VanLoock, M.S., Egelman, E.H., Stebbins, C.E., 2003. Salmonella SipA polymerizes actin by stapling filaments with nonglobular protein arms. Science 301, 1918–1921.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wystup, U., 2006. FX Options and Structured Products. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Krötzsch, M., Straccia, U. (Eds.), 2012. Web Reasoning and Rule Systems: 6th International Conference, RR 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 10-12, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Andersen, P.K., Skovgaard, L.T., 2010. One quantitative covariate, in: Skovgaard, L.T. (Ed.), Regression with Linear Predictors, Statistics for Biology and Health. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 173–230.

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. Philae Has Been Found! ESA Tracks Down Lander On Comet 67P In Mission’s “Final Hour” [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/philae-has-been-found-on-comet-67p/ (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, 2015. Aviation Finance: Observations on the Effects of Budget Uncertainty on FAA (No. GAO-16-198R). 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

Proser, M., 2015. Ingredients for Optimal Care: Exploring Factors Associated with Patient Quality Outcomes among Federally-Qualified Health Centers (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Vecsey, G., 2010. Coaches Come and Go, Except JoePa. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Graham and Hegde, 2015; Macilwain, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Graham and Hegde, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Lilic et al., 2003)

About the journal

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