How to format your references using the Cell Cycle citation style

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

Tytell ED. Journal club: a neuroscientist marvels at our ability to learn unnatural tasks. Nature 2008; 456:679.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brent R, Lok L. Cell biology. A fishing buddy for hypothesis generators. Science 2005; 308:504–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim J, Ashenhurst JA, Movassaghi M. Total synthesis of (+)-11,11’-dideoxyverticillin A. Science 2009; 324:238–41.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Akondy RS, Fitch M, Edupuganti S, Yang S, Kissick HT, Li KW, Youngblood BA, Abdelsamed HA, McGuire DJ, Cohen KW, et al. Origin and differentiation of human memory CD8 T cells after vaccination. Nature 2017; 552:362–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leibowitz ML, Bova A, Hammond PB. The Endowment Model of Investing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Herik HJ van D, Ciancarini P, Donkers HHLM (jeroen), editors. Computers and Games: 5th International Conference, CG 2006, Turin, Italy, May 29-31, 2006. Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Maricau E, Gielen G. Analog IC Reliability Simulation. In: Gielen G, editor. Analog IC Reliability in Nanometer CMOS. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. page 93–149.

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 Cycle.

Blog post

Luntz S. Most, If Not All, Red Dwarf Stars Harbour At Least One Planet. IFLScience2014;

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. Digital Television Transition: Preliminary Information on Initial Consumer Education Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lange AW. Calcineurin/NFATc1/DSCR1 Pathway Function in Cardiac Valvuloseptal Development and Down Syndrome-Related Phenotypes. 2006;

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

Hay G. Measuring Risks at Europe’s Banks. New York Times2011; :B2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Cycle
Abbreviation	Cell Cycle
ISSN (print)	1538-4101
ISSN (online)	1551-4005
Scope	Cell Biology Developmental Biology Molecular Biology