How to format your references using the Tissue and Cell citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tissue and Cell. 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	Download the output style file
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

Randall, L., 2002. Extra dimensions and warped geometries. Science 296, 1422–1427.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pawlowska, T.E., Taylor, J.W., 2004. Organization of genetic variation in individuals of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Nature 427, 733–737.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lou, X., Scheuss, V., Schneggenburger, R., 2005. Allosteric modulation of the presynaptic Ca2+ sensor for vesicle fusion. Nature 435, 497–501.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sauerwald, A., Zhu, W., Major, T.A., Roy, H., Palioura, S., Jahn, D., Whitman, W.B., Yates, J.R., 3rd, Ibba, M., Söll, D., 2005. RNA-dependent cysteine biosynthesis in archaea. Science 307, 1969–1972.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Serval, J.-F., Tranié, J.-P., 2014. The Monetary System. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Gordon, R., Seckbach, J. (Eds.), 2012. The Science of Algal Fuels: Phycology, Geology, Biophotonics, Genomics and Nanotechnology, Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Botsch, M., Bommes, D., Kobbelt, L., 2005. Efficient Linear System Solvers for Mesh Processing, in: Martin, R., Bez, H., Sabin, M. (Eds.), Mathematics of Surfaces XI: 11th IMA International Conference, Loughborough, UK, September 5-7, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 62–83.

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 Tissue and Cell.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. 25 Images Of Earth That Put The Presidential Election Into Humbling Focus [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/images-of-earth-that-put-the-presidential-election-into-humbling-focus/ (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, 1987. [Recommendation to Congress To Relieve FAA Employee of Liability for Erroneous Payment] (No. B-227513). 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

Sharma, S.P., 2017. U.S. Government Program Managers’ Competencies to Manage Satellite Acquisition Programs (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Silver-Greenberg, J., Corkery, M., 2017. Rule Could Let Consumers Sue Financial Firms. 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 (Randall, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Pawlowska and Taylor, 2004; Randall, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Pawlowska and Taylor, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Sauerwald et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Tissue and Cell
Abbreviation	Tissue Cell
ISSN (print)	0040-8166
Scope	Cell Biology Developmental Biology General Medicine