How to format your references using the Epileptology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Epileptology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Pilling MJ. Chemical Kinetics. Calculating the pressure dependence of chemical reactions. Science. 2014 Dec 5;346(6214):1183–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sachs JD, Reid WV. Environment. Investments toward sustainable development. Science. 2006 May 19;312(5776):1002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dickinson DJ, Nelson WJ, Weis WI. A polarized epithelium organized by beta- and alpha-catenin predates cadherin and metazoan origins. Science. 2011 Mar 11;331(6022):1336–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chen JB, Gao HW, Zhang YL, Zhang Y, Zhou XF, Li CQ, et al. Developmental toxicity of diclofenac and elucidation of gene regulation in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Sci Rep. 2014 May 2;4:4841.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burgess M. Analytical Network and System Administration. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Chakrabarti A, Sharma N, Balas VE, editors. Advances in Computing Applications. Singapore: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Hirakawa H, Shirabe M. Rhetorical Marginalization of Science and Democracy: Politics in Risk Discourse on Radioactive Risks in Japan. In: Fujigaki Y, editor. Lessons From Fukushima: Japanese Case Studies on Science, Technology and Society. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 57–86.

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 Epileptology.

Blog post

Fang J. Breaking Waves Disturb Earth’s Magnetic Field. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. FAA Appropriation Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Apr. Report No.: T-RCED-88-35.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stephens AH. William Harold Fletcher (b. 1923): His life and career in music education at Oklahoma Christian University, 1950–2012 [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2012.

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

Kelly M. No Headline. New York Times. 1992 Nov 29;126.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pilling 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Sachs and Reid 2006; Pilling 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sachs and Reid 2006)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Epileptology
ISSN (print)	2212-8220
Scope	Clinical Neurology