How to format your references using the Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy. 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]

Vasilyev M. SIGNAL PROCESSING. Matched filtering of ultrashort pulses. Science 2015;350:1314–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Xu Y, Chun MM. Dissociable neural mechanisms supporting visual short-term memory for objects. Nature 2006;440:91–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Simpson AGB, MacQuarrie EK, Roger AJ. Eukaryotic evolution: early origin of canonical introns. Nature 2002;419:270.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Barthelemy M, Bordin P, Berestycki H, Gribaudi M. Self-organization versus top-down planning in the evolution of a city. Sci Rep 2013;3:2153.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Buchstaller I. Quotatives. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Peters C, Jijkoun V, Mandl T, Müller H, Oard DW, Peñas A, et al., editors. Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval: 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Budapest, Hungary, September 19-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 5152. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Fitz D, Jakschitz T, Rode BM. Salt-Induced Peptide Formation in Chemical Evolution: Building Blocks Before RNA – Potential of Peptide Splicing Reactions. In: Egel R, Lankenau D-H, Mulkidjanian AY, editors. Origins of Life: The Primal Self-Organization, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 109–27.

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 Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Scientists Find One Of The Last Ever Lakes On Mars. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-find-one-last-ever-lakes-mars/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. The Unit Status and Identity Report (UNITREP) System--What It Does and Does Not Measure. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1984.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Harvey J. Predicting Cost-Inflicting Mate Retention Tactic Use in Women with Borderline Personality Features: Examining the Roles of Maladaptive Schemas and Reactive Aggression. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2017.

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]

Leland J. The City Awakens. New York Times 2017:MB7.

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	Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy
Abbreviation	Seizure
ISSN (print)	1059-1311
Scope	General Medicine Clinical Neurology Neurology