How to format your references using the Chemistry and Physics of Lipids citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemistry and Physics of Lipids. 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

McNutt, M.K., 2006. Geophysics. Another nail in the plume coffin? Science 313, 1394–1395.

A journal article with 2 authors

Raser, J.M., O’Shea, E.K., 2004. Control of stochasticity in eukaryotic gene expression. Science 304, 1811–1814.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sivars, U., Aivazian, D., Pfeffer, S.R., 2003. Yip3 catalyses the dissociation of endosomal Rab-GDI complexes. Nature 425, 856–859.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gliki, G., Ebnet, K., Aurrand-Lions, M., Imhof, B.A., Adams, R.H., 2004. Spermatid differentiation requires the assembly of a cell polarity complex downstream of junctional adhesion molecule-C. Nature 431, 320–324.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alexandridis, A.K., Zapranis, A.D., 2014. Wavelet Neural Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Olsen, H., 2016. The Four Faces of the Republican Party: The Fight for the 2016 Presidential Nomination. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Bansal, N., Vredeveld, T., van der Zwaan, R., 2014. Approximating Vector Scheduling: Almost Matching Upper and Lower Bounds, in: Pardo, A., Viola, A. (Eds.), LATIN 2014: Theoretical Informatics: 11th Latin American Symposium, Montevideo, Uruguay, March 31–April 4, 2014. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 47–59.

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 Chemistry and Physics of Lipids.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2017. A Better Way To Harness The Wisdom Of Crowds [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/a-better-way-to-harness-the-wisdom-of-crowds/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2000. NASA’s Administrative Review of a Patent Infringement Claim (No. RCED-00-240R). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gandarilla, A.H., 2009. Family preservation: A content analysis of literature (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Hodara, S., 2015. Art and Its Inspiration, Side by Side. New York Times CT8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (McNutt, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (McNutt, 2006; Raser and O’Shea, 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Raser and O’Shea, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Gliki et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chemistry and Physics of Lipids
Abbreviation	Chem. Phys. Lipids
ISSN (print)	0009-3084
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Molecular Biology Organic Chemistry