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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cell and Tissue Banking. 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 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

Reichhardt T (2000) US astronomers draw up their wish list for a decade of funding. Nature 405:381–382

A journal article with 2 authors

Ridderinkhof KR, van den Wildenberg WPM (2005) Neuroscience. Adaptive coding. Science 307:1059–1060

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu K, Cao P, Heath JR (2010) Graphene visualizes the first water adlayers on mica at ambient conditions. Science 329:1188–1191

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Stott L, Poulsen C, Lund S, Thunell R (2002) Super ENSO and global climate oscillations at millennial time scales. Science 297:222–226

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang J-J (2014) Hydraulic Fracturing in Earth-Rock Fill DAMS. John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Cortellessa V, Varró D (eds) (2013) Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: 16th International Conference, FASE 2013, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2013, Rome, Italy, March 16-24, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Gordon KC, Fraser-Miller SJ (2016) Raman Spectroscopy. In: Müllertz A, Perrie Y, Rades T (eds) Analytical Techniques in the Pharmaceutical Sciences. Springer, New York, NY, pp 139–169

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 Cell and Tissue Banking.

Blog post

Andrews R (2015) Meet Nature’s Weirdest, Freakiest Vampires. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-natures-weirdest-freakiest-vampires/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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) Data Processing: USDA Needs To Better Manage Field-Office Computer Purchases. 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

Brown LT (2009) Identifying potential co-repressors associated with dexamethasone-induced repression of the MUC5AC gene. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Montague J (2017) For the Obscure, a Welcome Payday. 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 (Reichhardt 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Reichhardt 2000; Ridderinkhof and van den Wildenberg 2005).

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

Two authors: (Ridderinkhof and van den Wildenberg 2005)
Three or more authors: (Stott et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cell and Tissue Banking
Abbreviation	Cell Tissue Bank.
ISSN (print)	1389-9333
ISSN (online)	1573-6814
Scope	Cell Biology Biomedical Engineering Biomaterials Transplantation