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

Miller, D.A.B., 2015. Applied Optics. Sorting out light. Science 347, 1423–1424.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burns, C.G., Burns, C.E., 2014. Development. A crowning achievement for deciphering coronary origins. Science 345, 28–29.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yohe, G., Andronova, N., Schlesinger, M., 2004. Climate. To hedge or not against an uncertain climate future? Science 306, 416–417.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stokkan, K.A., Yamazaki, S., Tei, H., Sakaki, Y., Menaker, M., 2001. Entrainment of the circadian clock in the liver by feeding. Science 291, 490–493.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vento, J.J., 2013. Financial Independence (Getting to Point X ). John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Mitchell, R.C., Moore, S.A. (Eds.), 2012. Politics, Participation & Power Relations: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Critical Citizenship in the Classroom and Community, Critical Issues in The Future of Learning and Teaching. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Dumur, C.I., 2015. Molecular Methodologies, in: Idowu, M.O., Dumur, Catherine Isabelle, Garrett, C.T. (Eds.), Molecular Oncology Testing for Solid Tumors: A Pragmatic Approach. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 153–170.

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

Luntz, S., 2014. Man With Severed Spinal Cord Walks Again After Cell Transplant [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, 2006. Offshoring: U.S. Semiconductor and Software Industries Increasingly Produce in China and India (No. GAO-06-423). 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

Huang, Y.-F., 2013. The Effects of Two Methods on Training EFL University Students in Taiwan to Identify Three Non-Native Phonemic Contrasts (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Barron, J., 2017. Age Requirement At Chelsea Art Gallery: Over 60 Only. New York Times A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Miller, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Burns and Burns, 2014; Miller, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Burns and Burns, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Stokkan et al., 2001)

About the journal

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