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

Adams, J.U., 2015. Genetics: Big hopes for big data. Nature 527, S108-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Su, C.-Y., Carlson, J.R., 2013. Neuroscience. Circuit logic of avoidance and attraction. Science 340, 1295–1297.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meek, S.A., Conrad, H., Meijer, G., 2009. Trapping molecules on a chip. Science 324, 1699–1702.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yoshida, R., Tsubota, K., Ishiga, T., Sunagawa, M., Sonoyama, J., Aoki, D., Flouquet, J., Wakita, T., Muraoka, Y., Yokoya, T., 2013. Translational symmetry breaking and gapping of heavy-quasiparticle pocket in URu₂Si₂. Sci. Rep. 3, 2750.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Potter, L., 2012. The Life of William Shakespeare. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Dastani, M., Hübner, J.F., Logan, B. (Eds.), 2013. Programming Multi-Agent Systems: 10th International Workshop, ProMAS 2012, Valencia, Spain, June 5, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Wagner, I., Bertacco, V., 2011. Consistency Verification using Data Coloring, in: Bertacco, V. (Ed.), Post-Silicon and Runtime Verification for Modern Processors. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 95–126.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Police Use DNA To Create “Sketch” Of Suspected Murderer [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/police-use-dna-to-create-sketch-of-suspected-murderer/ (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, 1982. CETA Programs for Disadvantaged Adults: What Do We Know About Their Enrollees, Services, and Effectiveness (No. IPE-82-2). 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

Gada, K.K., 2015. Numerical analyses of passive and active flow control over a micro air vehicle with an optimized airfoil (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

Greenhouse, L., 2008. Justices Will Hear Liability Cases With Federal-State Disparity at Issue. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Adams, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Adams, 2015; Su and Carlson, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Su and Carlson, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Yoshida 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