How to format your references using the Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry citation style

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

Brumfiel G. Antihydrogen: holding up a mirror to physics’ world view. Nature. 2002;420(6917):731.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu Z, Xiao TS. STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY. Assembling the wheel of death. Science. 2015 Oct;350(6259):376–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wallace K, Hardy G, Serabyn E. Deep and stable interferometric nulling of broadband light with implications for observing planets around nearby stars. Nature. 2000 Aug;406(6797):700–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Langford DJ, Crager SE, Shehzad Z, Smith SB, Sotocinal SG, Levenstadt JS, et al. Social modulation of pain as evidence for empathy in mice. Science. 2006 Jun;312(5782):1967–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Florczyk S. Robot Vision. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

Tom WL, editor. Severe Skin Diseases in Children: Beyond Topical Therapy. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Deutsch C. Tunnel Vision: Insights from Biochemical and Biophysical Studies. In: Ito K, editor. Regulatory Nascent Polypeptides. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2014; pp 61–86.

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 Physiology and Biochemistry.

Blog post

Andrew D. Here’s Why ‘Baby Talk’ Is Good For Your Baby [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Nov [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/heres-why-baby-talk-is-good-for-your-baby/

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. Information Resources: Problems Persist in Justice’s ADP Management and Operations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beck RE. Examining the relationship between self-initiated expatriation and cross-cultural adjustment among expatriate spouses within nonprofit organizations: A quantitative causal-comparative study. 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

Eddy M, Kishkovsky S. Bolshoi Director Is Upbeat About His Recovery. New York Times. 2013 Mar;C3.

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 Physiology and Biochemistry
Abbreviation	Cell. Physiol. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	1015-8987
ISSN (online)	1421-9778
Scope	Physiology