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Cell journals (numeric) Citation Generator

Generate references in Cell journals (numeric) from a DOI or link in seconds. CitApp renders this style with citeproc, the same engine as Zotero and Mendeley, so every comma matches the spec. Free for students, no sign-up to try.

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What a Cell journals (numeric) reference looks like

Cell journals (numeric) is a numeric style: sources are cited with a bracketed or superscript number in the order they first appear, and the reference list is numbered to match.

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Journal article

1. Babonis, L.S., and Martindale, M.Q. (2022). A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS 119, e2113701119. 10.1073/pnas.2113701119.

Book

1. Kuhn, T.S. (1970). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (University of Chicago Press).

Web page

1. IPCC (2021). Climate change 2021: the physical science basis. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/.

Journal article with 26 authors

1. Harris, C.R., Millman, K.J., van der Walt, S.J., Gommers, R., Virtanen, P., Cournapeau, D., Wieser, E., Taylor, J., Berg, S., Smith, N.J., et al. (2020). Array programming with NumPy. Nature 585, 357–362. 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2.

Cell journals (numeric) at a glance

Read from the style file and checked against the examples above.

Used mainly in biology.
In the text, the first source is cited as [1].
For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names the first 10 authors and shortens the rest.
First names are shortened to initials.
DOIs are printed without a link.
Web pages are cited without an access date.
The reference list is numbered in the order sources are first cited.
The style file was last updated in July 2016.

The guide this style follows: cell.com

How Cell journals (numeric) compares with Cell

Where Cell journals (numeric) differs:

DOIs are printed without a link.
In the text, the first source is cited as [1].

The same journal article in Cell

1. Babonis, L.S., and Martindale, M.Q. (2022). A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS 119, e2113701119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113701119.

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