How to format your references using the Cell Death and Disease citation style

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

Check E. National academies slam Bush proposal for data security. Nature 2002; 419: 769.

A journal article with 2 authors

May M, Davis J. Preparing for the worst. Nature 2006; 443: 907–908.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang K, Li Q, Fan S. Nanotechnology: spinning continuous carbon nanotube yarns. Nature 2002; 419: 801.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ford MGJ, Mills IG, Peter BJ, Vallis Y, Praefcke GJK, Evans PR et al. Curvature of clathrin-coated pits driven by epsin. Nature 2002; 419: 361–366.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tolin DF, Worden BL, Wootton BM, Gilliam CM. CBT for Hoarding Disorder. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2017.

An edited book

Herrling PL, Matter A, Schultz RM (eds.). Advances in Targeted Cancer Therapy. Birkhäuser: Basel, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen H, Zeng D, Yan P. Data Visualization, Information Dissemination, and Alerting. In: Zeng D, Yan P (eds). Infectious Disease Informatics: Syndromic Surveillance for Public Health and BioDefense. Springer US: Boston, MA, 2010, pp 73–87.

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 Death and Disease.

Blog post

Andrew E. Robot Hitchhiker Will Make Its Way Across The U.S. This Summer. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robot-hitchhiker-will-make-its-way-across-united-states-summer/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program: Actions Needed to Address Weaknesses in Administration and Oversight. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pappenfus BJ. How frequency of change within organizations affects burnout of human resource professionals. 2013.

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

Pilon M. Right to Play Is a Victory For a School. New York Times. 2013; : D3.

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 Death and Disease
Abbreviation	Cell Death Dis.
ISSN (online)	2041-4889
Scope	Cancer Research Cell Biology Immunology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience