How to format your references using the Histochemistry and Cell Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Histochemistry and 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	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

Strasser BJ (2003) Who cares about the double helix? Nature 422:803–804

A journal article with 2 authors

Milhous WK, Weina PJ (2010) Plant science. The botanical solution for malaria. Science 327:279–280

A journal article with 3 authors

Fang Y, Seong N-H, Dlott DD (2008) Measurement of the distribution of site enhancements in surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Science 321:388–392

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Xia H, Zhu D, Luo Z, et al (2013) Hierarchically structured Co₃O₄@Pt@MnO₂ nanowire arrays for high-performance supercapacitors. Sci Rep 3:2978

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dowd K (2005) Measuring Market Risk. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Liao S (2015) Migrating to Swift from Web Development. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Angluin D, Aspnes J, Eisenstat D (2007) A Simple Population Protocol for Fast Robust Approximate Majority. In: Pelc A (ed) Distributed Computing: 21st International Symposium, DISC 2007, Lemesos, Cyprus, September 24-26, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 20–32

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 Histochemistry and Cell Biology.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) This Cute Falcon Chick Was Rescued At CERN. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-cute-falcon-chick-was-rescued-at-cern/. 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 (1998) NASA Procurement: Status of Efforts to Improve Oversight. 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

McKenzie NJ (2012) African/Black psychology: A qualitative investigation of distinguished Black psychologists. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Hollander S (2009) Where’s Chinatown? That’s a Touchy Subject. New York Times CY6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Strasser 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Strasser 2003; Milhous and Weina 2010).

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

Two authors: (Milhous and Weina 2010)
Three or more authors: (Xia et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Histochemistry and Cell Biology
Abbreviation	Histochem. Cell Biol.
ISSN (print)	0948-6143
ISSN (online)	1432-119X
Scope	Cell Biology Molecular Biology Histology Medical Laboratory Technology