How to format your references using the Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids. 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]

D. Endy, Genomics. Reconstruction of the genomes, Science 319 (2008) 1196–1197.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Tahir, U. Schwingenschlögl, Valley polarized quantum Hall effect and topological insulator phase transitions in silicene, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1075.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Biek, A.J. Drummond, M. Poss, A virus reveals population structure and recent demographic history of its carnivore host, Science 311 (2006) 538–541.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G. Zhang, H. Wu, G. Li, Q. Huang, C. Yang, F. Huang, F. Liao, J. Lin, New high T(c) multiferroics KBiFe₂O₅ with narrow band gap and promising photovoltaic effect, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1265.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N. Tripathi, R.S. Singh, C.D. Hills, Reclamation of Mine-Impacted Land for Ecosystem Recovery, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

P. von Böckh, Heat Transfer: Basics and Practice, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Alexiou, K. Asimakis, C. Bouras, V. Kokkinos, A. Papazois, Combining MBSFN and PTM Transmission Schemes for Resource Efficiency in LTE Networks, in: X. Masip-Bruin, D. Verchere, V. Tsaoussidis, M. Yannuzzi (Eds.), Wired/Wireless Internet Communications: 9th IFIP TC 6 International Conference, WWIC 2011, Vilanova i La Geltrú, Spain, June 15-17, 2011. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 56–67.

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 Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, The Lost Ocean Of Mars, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Laboratory Accreditation: Requirements Vary Throughout the Federal Government, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.I. Rudoy, Developing a model for understanding mindfulness as a potential intervention for obsessive-compulsive disorder, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2014.

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]

K. Feeney, I’m a Lumber Jack (Omelet, That Is), New York Times (2007) NJ6.

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	Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids
Abbreviation	Prostaglandins Leukot. Essent. Fatty Acids
ISSN (print)	0952-3278
Scope	Cell Biology Clinical Biochemistry