How to format your references using the Adipocyte citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Adipocyte. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Nicholls H. Darwin 200: A flight of fancy. Nature 2009; 457:790–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tan S, Lü J. Characterizing the effect of population heterogeneity on evolutionary dynamics on complex networks. Sci Rep 2014; 4:5034.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hanna RA, Campbell RL, Davies PL. Calcium-bound structure of calpain and its mechanism of inhibition by calpastatin. Nature 2008; 456:409–12.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gopalakrishnan AM, Kundu AK, Mandal TK, Kumar N. Novel nanosomes for gene delivery to Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells. Sci Rep 2013; 3:1534.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knudsen S. A Biologist’s Guide to Analysis of DNA Microarray Data. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Shin JC, Postiglione GA, Huang F, editors. Mass Higher Education Development in East Asia: Strategy, Quality, and Challenges. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Konopka A, van Beers W. Compositionwork: A Method for Self Exploration and Development. In: Hermans H, editor. Assessing and Stimulating a Dialogical Self in Groups, Teams, Cultures, and Organizations. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. page 55–73.

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 Adipocyte.

Blog post

Luntz S. Why Does Being A Twin Run In Families? [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-do-fraternal-twins-run-families/

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. Transportation Security Administration’s Suspension of the Butane Lighter Ban Onboard Commercial Aircraft. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Saha P. Application hardware-software co-design for reconfigurable computing systems. 2008;

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

Williams J. Books by Melanie Finn, Alexandra Kleeman, Robert Seethaler and Margot Livesey. New York Times2016; :C5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Adipocyte
Abbreviation	Adipocyte
ISSN (print)	2162-3945
ISSN (online)	2162-397X
Scope	Cell Biology Histology