Cell Referencing Guide
(updated Mar 2024)


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How to do citations in Cell style?

This is the Citationsy guide to Cell citations, reference lists, in-text citations, and bibliographies.
The complete, comprehensive guide shows you how easy citing any source can be. Referencing books, youtube videos, websites, articles, journals, podcasts, images, videos, or music in Cell.

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How do you cite a book in the Cell referencing style? (2024 Guide)

One of the most cited mediums is of course books. Here’s how to cite a book in Cell

Here’s an example book citation in Cell using placeholders:
Last Name, F.N. (2000). Title (City: Publisher).
So if we want to cite, for example, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou we’d do so like this:
Cell citation:
Angelou, M. (1969). I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (New York: Random House).
And an in-text citation book citation in Cell looks like this: (Angelou, 1969)


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How to reference a journal article in the Cell citation style?

How do you cite scientific papers in Cell format?

To write a research paper, you need to incorporate sources. This means that you have to know how to format the sources in your academic paper. To cite someone else’s paper in Cell in your research, follow these simple steps.

Here’s a Cell journal citation example using placeholders:
Author1 LastnameA.F., and Author3 LastnameA.F. (2000). Title. Container Volume, pages Used.
So if we want to reference this scientific article: “Testing consumer preferences for iced-coffee: Does the drinking environment have any influence?” by C. Petit and J.M. Sieffermann in Cell: