How to format your references using the Cell Calcium citation style

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

[1]

T.W. Hambley, Chemistry. Metal-based therapeutics, Science 318 (2007) 1392–1393.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.C. Finlay, A. Jackson, Equatorially dominated magnetic field change at the surface of Earth’s core, Science 300 (2003) 2084–2086.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K.E. Galloway, E. Franco, C.D. Smolke, Dynamically reshaping signaling networks to program cell fate via genetic controllers, Science 341 (2013) 1235005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Kashlinsky, R.G. Arendt, J. Mather, S.H. Moseley, Tracing the first stars with fluctuations of the cosmic infrared background, Nature 438 (2005) 45–50.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Dudbridge, Handbook of Seal Integrity in the Food Industry, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

N. Arndt, Metals and Society: An Introduction to Economic Geology, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.J.M. Ferreira, M.L. Raposo, C.I. Fernandes, The Impact of Inter-firm Cooperation on Performance: A Two-Region Experience, in: J.J.M. Ferreira, M. Raposo, R. Rutten, A. Varga (Eds.), Cooperation, Clusters, and Knowledge Transfer: Universities and Firms Towards Regional Competitiveness, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 81–102.

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 Calcium.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Bleaching Of The Great Barrier Reef Seen From Space, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/space/bleaching-of-the-great-barrier-reef-seen-from-space/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Railroad Regulation: Shipper Experiences and Current Issues in ICC Regulation of Rail Rates, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.L. DeReus, The correlation between career anchors and satisfaction - a comparative analysis of multiple affiliations under a single organizational structure, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2012.

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

[1]

M. Cooper, When the Fire Fades, New York Times (2017) AR1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Cell Calcium
Abbreviation	Cell Calcium
ISSN (print)	0143-4160
Scope	Cell Biology Molecular Biology Physiology