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

Ramsay JG. GEOPHYSICS: Enhanced: A Strained Earth, Past and Present. Science 2000; 288:2139–41.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miyamichi K, Luo L. Neuroscience. Brain wiring by presorting axons. Science 2009; 325:544–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Holland ND, Holland LZ, Holland PWH. Scenarios for the making of vertebrates. Nature 2015; 520:450–5.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lescroart F, Wang X, Lin X, Swedlund B, Gargouri S, Sànchez-Dànes A, Moignard V, Dubois C, Paulissen C, Kinston S, et al. Defining the earliest step of cardiovascular lineage segregation by single-cell RNA-seq. Science 2018; 359:1177–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Evans GM, Furlong JC. Environmental Biotechnology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

Lichtenstein GR, editor. Medical Therapy of Ulcerative Colitis. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Sadler DR. Transforming Holistic Assessment and Grading into a Vehicle for Complex Learning. In: Joughin G, editor. Assessment, Learning and Judgement in Higher Education. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. page 1–19.

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

Andrew E. Blue Skies Over Pluto And A Lakeside Home On Mars [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/blue-skies-over-pluto-and-lakeside-home-mars/

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. District of Columbia: Performance Report Shows Continued Progress. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Perfitt T. Megaphone: Fault tolerant, scalable, and trustworthy peer-to-peer microblogging. 2009;

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

Kelly DA. Keeping Your Computer and Its Contents Safe. New York Times2005; :56.

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