How to format your references using the Stem Cell Research citation style

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

Schlütter, J., 2011. Therapeutics: new drugs hit the target. Nature 474, S5-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Harper, G.R., Jr, Pfennig, D.W., 2008. Selection overrides gene flow to break down maladaptive mimicry. Nature 451, 1103–1106.

A journal article with 3 authors

Isaacs, F.J., Blake, W.J., Collins, J.J., 2005. Molecular biology. Signal processing in single cells. Science 307, 1886–1888.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Maunz, P., Puppe, T., Schuster, I., Syassen, N., Pinkse, P.W.H., Rempe, G., 2004. Cavity cooling of a single atom. Nature 428, 50–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Padilla, E., 2015. Substation Automation Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Stalke, D. (Ed.), 2012. Electron Density and Chemical Bonding I: Experimental Charge Density Studies, Structure and Bonding. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ferraro, R., 2007. Transformation of the Electromagnetic Field, in: Ferraro, R. (Ed.), Einstein’s Space-Time: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 117–134.

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 Stem Cell Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Fixing ‘Leaky’ Blood Vessels To Combat Severe Respiratory Ailments And, Perhaps, Ebola [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1982. Attrition of Scientists at Three Regulatory Agencies (No. PAD-83-16). 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

Sorensen, T.R., 2010. The Use of Classroom Walk-Through Observations as a Strategy to Improve Teaching and Learning: A Student Centered Perspective (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Crow, K., 2002. Street-Cleaning Rules Are Whisked Away, And Drivers Get a Little Patch of Heaven. New York Times 144.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schlütter, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Harper and Pfennig, 2008; Schlütter, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Harper and Pfennig, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Maunz et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Stem Cell Research
Abbreviation	Stem Cell Res.
ISSN (print)	1873-5061
Scope	Cell Biology Developmental Biology General Medicine