How to format your references using the Human Cell citation style

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

1. Klarreich E. Wellcome Trust sets out fresh misconduct standards. Nature. 2001;412:667.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Peterca M, Percec V. Materials science. Recasting metal alloy phases with block copolymers. Science. 2010;330:333–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sparrow B, Liu J, Wegner DM. Google effects on memory: cognitive consequences of having information at our fingertips. Science. 2011;333:776–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wehrens XHT, Lehnart SE, Reiken SR, Deng S-X, Vest JA, Cervantes D, et al. Protection from cardiac arrhythmia through ryanodine receptor-stabilizing protein calstabin2. Science. 2004;304:292–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lütolf-Carroll C, Antti Pirnes, Withers LLP. From Innovation to Cash Flows. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

1. Henning MA. Total Domination in Graphs. Yeo A, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Özpak Y, Aykan M, Çalışkan M. Energy Harvesting from Piezoelectric Stacks Using Impacting Beam. In: Wicks A, editor. Shock & Vibration, Aircraft/Aerospace, and Energy Harvesting, Volume 9: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 25–37.

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 Human Cell.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Time-Lapse Video of Lunar Eclipse [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/time-lapse-video-lunar-eclipse/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Transportation Infrastructure: Information on Bridge Conditions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015 Oct. Report No.: GAO-16-72R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Tablason JM. Recollecting [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

1. Protess B. Trump Picks an Overseer of Derivatives Trading. New York Times. 2017 Mar 15;A11.

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	Human Cell
Abbreviation	Hum. Cell
ISSN (online)	1749-0774
Scope	Cancer Research Cell Biology General Medicine