How to format your references using the Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Dermitzakis ET. 2011. Genome-sequencing anniversary. Genome literacy. Science. 331(6018):689–90

A journal article with 2 authors

Dauphas N, Pourmand A. 2011. Hf-W-Th evidence for rapid growth of Mars and its status as a planetary embryo. Nature. 473(7348):489–92

A journal article with 3 authors

Ryu WS, Berry RM, Berg HC. 2000. Torque-generating units of the flagellar motor of Escherichia coli have a high duty ratio. Nature. 403(6768):444–47

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Blackburn GM, Williams NH, Gamblin SJ, Smerdon SJ. 2003. Comment on “The pentacovalent phosphorus intermediate of a phosphoryl transfer reaction.” Science. 301(5637):1184; author reply 1184

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Runcie T, Dochtermann M. 2013. Making Effective Business Decisions Using Microsoft Project. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Miglio A, Montalbán J, Noels A, eds. 2012. Red Giants as Probes of the Structure and Evolution of the Milky Way. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Daun H, Siminou P. 2009. Decentralisation and Market Mechanisms in Education – Examples from Six European Countries. In Decentralisation, School-Based Management, and Quality, eds. J Zajda, DT Gamage, pp. 77–101. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

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 Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2015. New Particle Discovered At The Large Hadron Collider. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 2002. Commercial Aviation: Financial Condition and Industry Responses Affect Competition. GAO-03-171T, 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

Eggleston BP. 2014. An Investigation of the Difference in Student Achievement during the Middle School Transition Years. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Lindenwood University

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

Billard M. 2010. A Yoga Manifesto. New York Times, April 23, , p. ST1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dermitzakis 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Dauphas & Pourmand 2011; Dermitzakis 2011).

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

Two authors: (Dauphas & Pourmand 2011)
Three or more authors: (Blackburn et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1081-0706
ISSN (online)	1530-8995
Scope	Cell Biology Developmental Biology