How to format your references using the Cellular Signalling citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cellular Signalling. 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:


PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles 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]
C. Wentrup, Radical chemistry. From reactive intermediates to stable compounds, Science. 295 (2002) 1846–1847.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
T. Reya, H. Clevers, Wnt signalling in stem cells and cancer, Nature. 434 (2005) 843–850.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
T.R. Mempel, S.E. Henrickson, U.H. Von Andrian, T-cell priming by dendritic cells in lymph nodes occurs in three distinct phases, Nature. 427 (2004) 154–159.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
J. Li, Q. Shi, Y. Bai, C. Pu, Y. Tang, H. Yuan, Y. Wu, Q. Wei, P. Han, Efficacy and safety of muscarinic antagonists as add-on therapy for male lower urinary tract symptoms, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3948.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
E.F. Rogers Jr, Aquinas and the Supreme Court, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2013.
An edited book
[1]
J. Diaz, I. Lanese, D. Sangiorgi, eds., Theoretical Computer Science: 8th IFIP TC 1/WG 2.2 International Conference, TCS 2014, Rome, Italy, September 1-3, 2014. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
R. Renner, Quantum-Resilient Randomness Extraction, in: S. Fehr (Ed.), Information Theoretic Security: 5th International Conference, ICITS 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 21-24, 2011. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 52–57.

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 Cellular Signalling.

Blog post
[1]
J. Davis, Diet Of Corn Is Turning French Hamsters Into Infant-Devouring Cannibals, IFLScience. (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/diet-of-corn-is-turning-french-hamsters-into-infantdevouring-cannibals/ (accessed October 30, 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, General Government Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
M.C. Baker, A descriptive study of the view from the top: Perspectives of experts in continuing medical education, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2010.

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]
G. Vecsey, Sympathy for the Umpires, New York Times. (2009) B17.

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 titleCellular Signalling
AbbreviationCell. Signal.
ISSN (print)0898-6568
ScopeCell Biology

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