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

Smaglik P. Brain storm. Nature 2007; 450:130–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kovach JD, Lamb RS. Evolution. There can be only one. Science 2014; 343:623–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dally JM, Emery NJ, Clayton NS. Food-caching western scrub-jays keep track of who was watching when. Science 2006; 312:1662–5.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Altschuler SJ, Angenent SB, Wang Y, Wu LF. On the spontaneous emergence of cell polarity. Nature 2008; 454:886–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tue NV, Reichel M, Fischer M. Berechnung und Bemessung von Betonbrücken. Berlin, Germany: Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG; 2016.

An edited book

Rosengren S, Dahlén M, Okazaki S, editors. Advances in Advertising Research (Vol. IV): The Changing Roles of Advertising. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Yoshida E, Esteves C, Kanoun O, Poirier M, Mallet A, Laumond J-P, Yokoi K. Planning Whole-body Humanoid Locomotion, Reaching, and Manipulation. In: Harada K, Yoshida E, Yokoi K, editors. Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots. London: Springer; 2010. page 99–128.

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

Fang J. Scarlet Kingsnake Still Mimics Extinct Venomous Species [Internet]. IFLScience2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scarlet-kingsnake-still-mimics-extinct-venomous-species/

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. The Challenge of Career Adaptation and Renewal. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Randall R. Department of Children and Family Services workers’ knowledge of childhood obesity and services for obese children. 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

Shpigel B. After 5 Months of Work, U.S. Makes (and Earns) a Vital Point. New York Times2017; :B13.

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

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