How to format your references using the Lipids in Health and Disease citation style

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

1. Freeman KH. Journal club. A biogeochemist ponders muddy molecules and past climates. Nature. 2009;462:701.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Losick R, Desplan C. Stochasticity and cell fate. Science. 2008;320:65–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lower SK, Hochella MF Jr, Beveridge TJ. Bacterial recognition of mineral surfaces: nanoscale interactions between Shewanella and alpha-FeOOH. Science. 2001;292:1360–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Gladstone GR, Hurley DM, Retherford KD, Feldman PD, Pryor WR, Chaufray J-Y, et al. LRO-LAMP observations of the LCROSS impact plume. Science. 2010;330:472–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Geng H. Data Center Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

1. Kozłowski KR, editor. Robot Motion and Control 2009. London: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ruzicka F, Horka M, Hola V. Extracellular Polysaccharides in Microbial Biofilm and Their Influence on the Electrophoretic Properties of Microbial Cells. In: Volpi N, editor. Capillary Electrophoresis of Carbohydrates: From Monosaccharides to Complex Polysaccharides. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2011. p. 105–26.

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 in Health and Disease.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. What’s The Most Expensive Object In The World? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Computer Security: FAA Is Addressing Personnel Weaknesses, But Further Action Is Required. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 May. Report No.: AIMD-00-169.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Steers AV. Releasing from the inside out: The development of the role of Helene in “Festen” [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

1. Landler M, Plumer B, Qiu L. A Long List of Economic Burdens, Bolstered by Dubious Data. New York Times. 2017 Jun 2;A1.

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 in Health and Disease
Abbreviation	Lipids Health Dis.
ISSN (online)	1476-511X
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry Endocrinology Biochemistry, medical Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism