How to format your references using the Cell Genomics citation style

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

Tyndall, G. (2012). Chemistry. Vibrational excitation can control tropospheric chemistry. Science 337, 1046–1047.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fearon, E.R., and Cadigan, K.M. (2005). Cell biology. Wnt signaling glows with RNAi. Science 308, 801–803.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jackson, D.E., Holcombe, M., and Ratnieks, F.L.W. (2004). Trail geometry gives polarity to ant foraging networks. Nature 432, 907–909.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kim, J., Lim, S.C., Chae, S.J., Maeng, I., Choi, Y., Cha, S., Lee, Y.H., and Choi, H. (2013). Ultrafast zero balance of the oscillator-strength sum rule in graphene. Sci. Rep. 3, 2663.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Terré, M., Pischella, M., and Vivier, E. (2013). Wireless Telecommunication Systems (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Kudo, G. ed. (2016). Structure and Function of Mountain Ecosystems in Japan: Biodiversity and Vulnerability to Climate Change 1st ed. 2016. (Springer Japan).

A chapter in an edited book

Nesterenko, M.V., Katrich, V.A., Penkin, Y.M., Dakhov, V.M., and Berdnik, S.L. (2011). Generalized Method of Induced EMF for Investigation of the Characteristics of Impedance Vibrators. In Thin Impedance Vibrators: Theory and Applications Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering., V. A. Katrich, Y. M. Penkin, V. M. Dakhov, and S. L. Berdnik, eds. (Springer), pp. 113–154.

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 Genomics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Brain Stimulation Can Change How You Punish Someone. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-your-brain-decides-whos-guilty-and-how-they-should-be-punished/.

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 (2006). Financial Management Systems: DHS Has an Opportunity to Incorporate Best Practices in Modernization Efforts (U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kelly, L.A. (2009). Nursing surveillance in the acute care setting: Latent variable development and analysis.

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

Biillard, M. (2010). Listen Up, but Good. New York Times, E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Cell Genomics
ISSN (online)	2666-979X
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