How to format your references using the Clinical Lipidology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Lipidology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Forró L. NANOTECHNOLOGY: Beyond Gedanken Experiments. Science. 289(5479), 560–561 (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

Paz-Silva GA, Lidar DA. Optimally combining dynamical decoupling and quantum error correction. Sci. Rep. 3, 1530 (2013).

A journal article with 3 authors

Naeem S, Duffy JE, Zavaleta E. The functions of biological diversity in an age of extinction. Science. 336(6087), 1401–1406 (2012).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Peng Y, Ellis BD, Wang X, Fettinger JC, Power PP. Reversible reactions of ethylene with distannynes under ambient conditions. Science. 325(5948), 1668–1670 (2009).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Onstott S. AutoCAD® and AutoCAD LT® Essentials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.

An edited book

Lazega E, Snijders TAB, editors. Multilevel Network Analysis for the Social Sciences: Theory, Methods and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

O’Hara P. Minkowski Space and Quantum Mechanics. In: Space, Time, and Spacetime: Physical and Philosophical Implications of Minkowski’s Unification of Space and Time. Petkov V (Ed.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 107–127 (2010).

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 Clinical Lipidology.

Blog post

Davis J. Letter Penned By Charles Darwin Returned To The Smithsonian, 30 Years After It Was Stolen [Internet]. IFLScience (2016). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/letter-penned-by-charles-darwin-returned-to-the-smithsonian-thirty-years-after-it-was-stolen/.

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. Pipeline Safety: Better Data and Guidance Needed to Improve Pipeline Operator Incident Response. 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

Kim SA. Development of an age-appropriate, facility-specific nutrition screening and assessment tool for the elderly. (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

Pilon M. Skating’s New Scoring System Adds to Challenge for American Men. New York Times, SP11 (2014).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Clinical Lipidology
Abbreviation	Clin. Lipidol.
ISSN (print)	1758-4299
ISSN (online)	1758-4302
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism