How to format your references using the In Silico Cell and Tissue Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for In Silico Cell and Tissue Science. 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

1. Egger J. Refinement-cut: user-guided segmentation algorithm for translational science. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5164.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hedwig B, Poulet JFA. Complex auditory behaviour emerges from simple reactive steering. Nature. 2004;430:781–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Giovannoni S, Temperton B, Zhao Y. Giovannoni et al. reply. Nature. 2013;499:E4-5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ma Y, Eremets M, Oganov AR, Xie Y, Trojan I, Medvedev S, et al. Transparent dense sodium. Nature. 2009;458:182–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Maré J-C. Aerospace Actuators 1. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

1. Napolitano NR, Longo G, Marconi M, Paolillo M, Iodice E, editors. The Universe of Digital Sky Surveys: A Meeting to Honour the 70th Birthday of Massimo Capaccioli. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Koltay P, Ducrée J, Zengerle RD. Micro-Fluidic Platforms. In: Urban GA, editor. BioMEMS. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006. p. 139–65.

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 In Silico Cell and Tissue Science.

Blog post

1. Carpineti C. Check Out These Incredible Videos Of A Star Exploding [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/check-out-these-incredible-videos-of-a-star-exploding/. 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. Stock Market Automation: Exchanges Have Increased Systems’ Capacities Since the 1987 Market Crash. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 May. Report No.: IMTEC-91-37.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Owen AK. Preventive health behaviors: A look at the correlation between regular physical activity and routine cervical cancer screening [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

1. Williams J. Podcast Therapy. New York Times. 2017 Oct 6;BR4.

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	In Silico Cell and Tissue Science
Abbreviation	In Silico Cell Tissue Sci.
ISSN (online)	2196-050X
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