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

Kump LR. The rise of atmospheric oxygen. Nature. 451(7176), 277–278 (2008).

A journal article with 2 authors

Liston C, Kagan J. Brain development: memory enhancement in early childhood. Nature. 419(6910), 896 (2002).

A journal article with 3 authors

Gwak G, Ko J, Ju H. Effects of porous properties on cold-start behavior of polymer electrolyte fuel cells from sub-zero to normal operating temperatures. Sci. Rep. 4, 5770 (2014).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bycroft C, Freeman C, Petkova D, et al. The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data. Nature. 562(7726), 203–209 (2018).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cyr KS. Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 Administration. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA.

An edited book

Ramawat KG, editor. Herbal Drugs: Ethnomedicine to Modern Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sun J-Q, Song B. Analysis and Control of Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamical Systems with Time Delay. In: Complex Systems: Fractionality, Time-delay and Synchronization. Luo ACJ, Sun J-Q (Eds.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 119–203 (2012).

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

Fang J. Scientists Double The Size Of Ants. IFLScience (2015).

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness Improving But Much Work Remains to Ensure Delivery of Critical Services. 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

Marjanovic SY. The Role of the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein in Regulating T Cell Programmed Cell Death Mechanisms and Implications for Autoimmunity in the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome. (2016).

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

Kelly M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: News Analysis; The Center of Attention. New York Times, A1 (1992).

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