How to format your references using the Epilepsy Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Epilepsy 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

Fuyuno, I., 2006. Stuck in the middle. Nature 442, 237.

A journal article with 2 authors

Meinhart, A., Cramer, P., 2004. Recognition of RNA polymerase II carboxy-terminal domain by 3’-RNA-processing factors. Nature 430, 223–226.

A journal article with 3 authors

Suzuki, H., Imura, J.-I., Aihara, K., 2013. Chaotic Ising-like dynamics in traffic signals. Sci. Rep. 3, 1127.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Golas, M.M., Sander, B., Will, C.L., Lührmann, R., Stark, H., 2003. Molecular architecture of the multiprotein splicing factor SF3b. Science 300, 980–984.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Das, S.K., 2010. Mobile Handset Design. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Rappuoli, R., Del Giudice, G. (Eds.), 2011. Influenza Vaccines for the Future, First. ed, Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases. Springer, Basel.

A chapter in an edited book

Yuan, C., Duan, C., Wu, F., 2016. Robust $$\mathcal{H}_{\infty }$$ Switching Control of Polytopic Parameter-Varying Systems via Dynamic Output Feedback, in: Li, S.E., Deng, K. (Eds.), Automotive Air Conditioning: Optimization, Control and Diagnosis. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 53–72.

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 Epilepsy Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Explore the Ocean Floor From The Comfort Of Your Own Home [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/explore-ocean-floor-comfort-your-own-home/ (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, 1991. Highway Safety: Interim Report on Safety Belt and Motorcycle Helmet Effectiveness (No. RCED-91-158). 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

Moore, B.A., 2010. The Writing Machine (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Wagner, J., 2017. Extra Innings and Late-Game Twists. New York Times A2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fuyuno, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Fuyuno, 2006; Meinhart and Cramer, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Meinhart and Cramer, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Golas et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Epilepsy Research
Abbreviation	Epilepsy Res.
ISSN (print)	0920-1211
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology