How to format your references using the International Journal of Adipose Tissue and Stem Cells citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Adipose Tissue and Stem Cells. 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

[1]

Lewis R. A career at the museum. Nature 2008;451:218.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Elser J, Bennett E. Phosphorus cycle: A broken biogeochemical cycle. Nature 2011;478:29–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Worobey M, Han G-Z, Rambaut A. A synchronized global sweep of the internal genes of modern avian influenza virus. Nature 2014;508:254–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

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Lu C, Tej SS, Luo S, Haudenschild CD, Meyers BC, Green PJ. Elucidation of the small RNA component of the transcriptome. Science 2005;309:1567–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Promislow SD. Fundamentals of Actuarial Mathematics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

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Gerlach G, Arndt K-F, editors. Hydrogel Sensors and Actuators: Engineering and Technology. vol. 6. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

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Grosche T, Rothlauf F. Simultaneous Airline Scheduling. In: Fink A, Rothlauf F, editors. Advances in Computational Intelligence in Transport, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 81–108.

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 International Journal of Adipose Tissue and Stem Cells.

Blog post

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Andrew E. Prey’s Eye View of Eagle Flight. IFLScience 2013. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/prey’s-eye-view-eagle-flight/ (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

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Government Accountability Office. Income Security Issue Area: Active Assignments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Stachowiak D. How executive coaches use the results of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to develop their coachees. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2011.

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

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Lavin L. I Sang in New York. New York Times 2017:AR5.

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 title	International Journal of Adipose Tissue and Stem Cells
ISSN (print)	2211-9116
Scope