How to format your references using the Lipids citation style

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

Selker EU (2003) Molecular biology. A self-help guide for a trim genome. Science 300:1517–1518

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee E-J, Groisman EA (2012) Control of a Salmonella virulence locus by an ATP-sensing leader messenger RNA. Nature 486:271–275

A journal article with 3 authors

Dloniak SM, French JA, Holekamp KE (2006) Rank-related maternal effects of androgens on behaviour in wild spotted hyaenas. Nature 440:1190–1193

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ling JQ, Li T, Hu JF, et al (2006) CTCF mediates interchromosomal colocalization between Igf2/H19 and Wsb1/Nf1. Science 312:269–272

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Akers RM (2016) Lactation and the Mammary Gland. Blackwell Publishing Company, Ames, Iowa

An edited book

Sun F, Toh K-A, Romay MG, Mao K (2014) Extreme Learning Machines 2013: Algorithms and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Longo G, Montévil M (2014) Protention and Retention in Biological Systems. In: Montévil M (ed) Perspectives on Organisms: Biological time, Symmetries and Singularities. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 99–119

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 Lipids.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Gene Therapy Treats Dogs With Muscle Disease, Paving Way For Human Trials. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gene-therapy-treats-dogs-muscle-disease-paving-way-human-trials/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1981) Consistent Criteria Are Needed To Assess Small-Business Innovation Initiatives. 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

Rawashdeh MY (2013) A Relational Framework for Clustering and Cluster Validity and the Generalization of the Silhouette Measure. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Robbins L (2013) Restaurants Were His Life. New York Times MB1

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	Lipids
Abbreviation	Lipids
ISSN (print)	0024-4201
ISSN (online)	1558-9307
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Organic Chemistry