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

Broecker, W.S., 2007. Climate change CO2 arithmetic. Science 315, 1371.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gratzer, W., Nathan, D.G., 2005. Obituary: Fred S. Rosen (1930-2005). Nature 435, 1044.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hwang, T.J., Carpenter, D., Kesselheim, A.S., 2014. Target small firms for antibiotic innovation. Science 344, 967–969.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pouget, E.M., Bomans, P.H.H., Goos, J.A.C.M., Frederik, P.M., de With, G., Sommerdijk, N.A.J.M., 2009. The initial stages of template-controlled CaCO3 formation revealed by cryo-TEM. Science 323, 1455–1458.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yakushevich, L.V., 2005. Nonlinear Physics of DNA. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Whitaker, A., Gilliam, M. (Eds.), 2014. Contraception for Adolescent and Young Adult Women. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Richter, J., Silvestrov, S., 2016. Computing Burchnall–Chaundy Polynomials with Determinants, in: Silvestrov, S., Rančić, M. (Eds.), Engineering Mathematics II: Algebraic, Stochastic and Analysis Structures for Networks, Data Classification and Optimization, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 57–63.

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, E., 2015. Beliefs About Innate Talent May Dissuade Students From STEM [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, 2005. Federal Aviation Administration: Stronger Architecture Program Needed to Guide Systems Modernization Efforts (No. GAO-05-266). 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

Schroeder, M., 2017. Investigating the Learnability of a Rogue Grammar: Null Subject Parameter Resetting in Second Language Acquisition (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Landler, M., 2007. High-Priced Oil Adds Volatility To Global Scramble for Power. 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 (Broecker, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Broecker, 2007; Gratzer and Nathan, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Gratzer and Nathan, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Pouget et al., 2009)

About the journal

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