How to format your references using the Current Research in Cell Biology citation style

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

Gasparini, N.M., 2014. Earth science: A fresh look at river flow. Nature 513, 490–491.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scholl, B., Priebe, N.J., 2015. Neuroscience: The cortical connection. Nature 518, 306–307.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schröter, C., Kosma, K., Schultz, T., 2011. CRASY: mass- or electron-correlated rotational alignment spectroscopy. Science 333, 1011–1015.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Surrey, T., Nedelec, F., Leibler, S., Karsenti, E., 2001. Physical properties determining self-organization of motors and microtubules. Science 292, 1167–1171.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paterson, S., Tobias, K., 2012. Atlas of ear diseases of the dog and cat. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,., West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Rimdusit, S., 2013. Alloys and Composites of Polybenzoxazines: Properties and Applications, Engineering Materials. Springer, Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

Stranahan, A.M., Mattson, M.P., 2010. Stress Hormones and Neuroplasticity in the Diabetic Brain, in: Craft, S., Christen, Y. (Eds.), Diabetes, Insulin and Alzheimer’s Disease, Research and Perspectives in Alzheimer’s Disease. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 57–71.

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 Current Research in Cell Biology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. How To Build A Virtual Reality System – In Your Living Room [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-build-virtual-reality-system-–-your-living-room/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1991. Traffic Congestion: The Need and Opportunity for Federal Involvement (No. T-PEMD-91-10). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Panteleyeva, N.B., 2010. Statistical methods of latent structure discovery in child-directed speech (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Wagner, J., 2017. Mets Evaluate Their Options at First Base After Duda Is Sidelined by Hip Stiffness. New York Times SP3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Gasparini, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gasparini, 2014; Scholl and Priebe, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Scholl and Priebe, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Surrey et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Research in Cell Biology
ISSN (print)	2590-2636
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