How to format your references using the Journal of Cell Science citation style

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

Grimes, R. N. (2011). William Nunn Lipscomb Jr (1919-2011). Nature 473, 286.

A journal article with 2 authors

Williams, D. A. and Baum, C. (2003). Medicine. Gene therapy--new challenges ahead. Science 302, 400–401.

A journal article with 3 authors

Packer, C., Pusey, A. E. and Eberly, L. E. (2001). Egalitarianism in female African lions. Science 293, 690–693.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Horinaka, M., Yoshida, T., Tomosugi, M., Yasuda, S., Sowa, Y. and Sakai, T. (2014). Myeloid zinc finger 1 mediates sulindac sulfide-induced upregulation of death receptor 5 of human colon cancer cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 6000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McPhee, P. (2012). A Companion to the French Revolution. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Chio, C. D., Agapitos, A., Cagnoni, S., Cotta, C., Vega, F. F. de, Caro, G. A. D., Drechsler, R., Ekárt, A., Esparcia-Alcázar, A. I., Farooq, M., et al. eds. (2012). Applications of Evolutionary Computation: EvoApplications 2012: EvoCOMNET, EvoCOMPLEX, EvoFIN, EvoGAMES, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoNUM, EvoPAR, EvoRISK, EvoSTIM, and EvoSTOC, Málaga, Spain, April 11-13, 2012, Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hoarau, A. and Monteil, T. (2013). Persistent Patterns in Integer Discrete Circles. In Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery: 17th IAPR International Conference, DGCI 2013, Seville, Spain, March 20-22, 2013. Proceedings (ed. Gonzalez-Diaz, R.), Jimenez, M.-J.), and Medrano, B.), pp. 35–46. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Journal of Cell Science.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2015). Morocco Will Have 24/7 Solar Power By 2017. IFLScience.

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 (2016). National Mediation Board: Progress Made on Some GAO Recommendations to Strengthen Operations, but Key Controls Continue to Be Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kantar, L. (2010). Clinical judgment among new nursing graduates: A multiple-case study.

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

Sisario, B. (2016). Bob Dylan Responds, Elliptically, to His Nobel Prize After a Two-Week Silence. New York Times A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grimes, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Grimes, 2011; Williams and Baum, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Williams and Baum, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Horinaka et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Cell Science
Abbreviation	J. Cell Sci.
ISSN (print)	0021-9533
ISSN (online)	1477-9137
Scope	Cell Biology