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

Newman SA. Physico-genetic determinants in the evolution of development. Science. 338(6104), 217–219 (2012).

A journal article with 2 authors

Watson EB, Harrison TM. Zircon thermometer reveals minimum melting conditions on earliest Earth. Science. 308(5723), 841–844 (2005).

A journal article with 3 authors

Stollewerk A, Schoppmeier M, Damen WGM. Involvement of Notch and Delta genes in spider segmentation. Nature. 423(6942), 863–865 (2003).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Liu M, Wang L, Sun X, Zhao X. Investigating the impact of Asp181 point mutations on interactions between PTP1B and phosphotyrosine substrate. Sci. Rep. 4, 5095 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Veasey DA, McCormick LC, Hilyer BM, Oldfield KW, Hansen S, Krayer TH. Confined Space Entry and Emergency Response. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Tinelli C, Sofronie-Stokkermans V, editors. Frontiers of Combining Systems: 8th International Symposium, FroCoS 2011, Saarbrücken, Germany, October 5-7, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Krantz SG, Parks HR. The Plateau Problem. In: A Mathematical Odyssey: Journey from the Real to the Complex. Parks HR (Ed.), Springer US, Boston, MA, 111–135 (2014).

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

Andrews R. World’s Largest Megaraptor Was Nothing Short Of Terrifying [Internet]. IFLScience (2016). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/worlds-largest-megaraptor-nothing-short-terrifying/.

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. Proposed Closure of VOA Dixon Relay Station. 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

Abrahamian A. Diagnosis and treatment of childhood depression: A resource for pediatricians. (2012).

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

Herrman J. Full Disclosure. New York Times, MM11 (2017).

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