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

Pollard, T.D., 2003. The cytoskeleton, cellular motility and the reductionist agenda. Nature 422, 741–745.

A journal article with 2 authors

Song, G., Zhang, W., 2014. First-principles study on the phase diagram and multiferroic properties of (SrCoO3)1/(SrTiO3)1 superlattices. Sci. Rep. 4, 4564.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ford, E.B., Seager, S., Turner, E.L., 2001. Characterization of extrasolar terrestrial planets from diurnal photometric variability. Nature 412, 885–887.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Clark, L.C., Seipke, R.F., Prieto, P., Willemse, J., van Wezel, G.P., Hutchings, M.I., Hoskisson, P.A., 2013. Mammalian cell entry genes in Streptomyces may provide clues to the evolution of bacterial virulence. Sci. Rep. 3, 1109.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goshtasby, A.A., 2017. Theory and Applications of Image Registration. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Rehm, G., Uszkoreit, H. (Eds.), 2012. The Greek Language in the Digital Age, White Paper Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Voronovich, A.G., 2007. Rayleigh Hypothesis, in: Maradudin, A.A. (Ed.), Light Scattering and Nanoscale Surface Roughness, Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 93–105.

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

Andrews, R., 2017. The Asgardia “Space Nation” Team Will Reveal Their Plans To The World Next Week [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1995. [Comments on Claim for Additional Charges on FAA Shipment] (No. B-259720). 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

Murdock, J.M., 2017. Lethe and the Twin Bodhisattvas of Forgiveness and Forgetfulness (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Lee, L., 2013. Embracing Miami’s Past And Future. New York Times D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pollard, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Pollard, 2003; Song and Zhang, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Song and Zhang, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Clark et al., 2013)

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