How to format your references using the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. 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

McAuley, P. Danger--hard hack area. Nature 404(6773):21 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pizzarello, S., and A. L. Weber. Prebiotic amino acids as asymmetric catalysts. Science 303(5661):1151 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ward, A. B., A. Sali, and I. A. Wilson. Biochemistry. Integrative structural biology. Science 339(6122):913–915 2013.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Schulze, D. J., B. Harte, J. W. Valley, J. M. Brenan, and D. M. D. R. Channer. Extreme crustal oxygen isotope signatures preserved in coesite in diamond. Nature 423(6935):68–70 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Love, J., and J. A. Bryant. Biofuels and Bioenergy. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Bottiglia, R., and F. Pichler, editors. Crowdfunding for SMEs: A European Perspective. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Forriol, F., M. San-Julian, and J. Cañadell†. Location of Sarcomas Within Bone: The Growth Plate. In: M. San-Julian, editor. Cañadell’s Pediatric Bone Sarcomas: Epiphysiolysis before Excision. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. pp. 103–113.

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 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. Hubble Might Have Seen The Shadow Of A Planet Forming. In: IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-might-have-seen-the-shadow-of-a-planet-forming/. 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. Aviation Weather: Agencies Need to Improve Performance Measurement and Fully Address Key Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010 Sep. Report No.: GAO-10-843

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dobson, E. C. Elizabeth C. Dobson Consulting and Design: A business plan for aging-in-place resources [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Billard, M. The Gossip Just Won’t Stop. New York Times E5 2013.

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	Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
Abbreviation	Cell. Mol. Bioeng.
ISSN (print)	1865-5025
ISSN (online)	1865-5033
Scope	General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Modelling and Simulation