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

Hill M. Perspective: Be clear about the real risks. Nature. 525(7570), S14 (2015).

A journal article with 2 authors

Robert F, Chaussidon M. A palaeotemperature curve for the Precambrian oceans based on silicon isotopes in cherts. Nature. 443(7114), 969–972 (2006).

A journal article with 3 authors

Hines PJ, Wible B, McCartney M. Science, language, and literacy. Learning to read, reading to learn. Introduction. Science. 328(5977), 447 (2010).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Trampert J, Deschamps F, Resovsky J, Yuen D. Probabilistic tomography maps chemical heterogeneities throughout the lower mantle. Science. 306(5697), 853–856 (2004).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McDonald AG, Magande HL. Introduction to Thermo-Fluids Systems Design. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Johnston RJ, Rolfe J, Rosenberger RS, Brouwer R, editors. Benefit Transfer of Environmental and Resource Values: A Guide for Researchers and Practitioners. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Ma H, Oxley L. Data Description. In: China’s Energy Economy: Situation, Reforms, Behavior, and Energy Intensity. Oxley L (Ed.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 101–124 (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

Andrews R. Extraordinary Artificial Skin Can Transmit Sense Of Touch To Brain Cells [Internet]. IFLScience (2015). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/extraordinary-artificial-skin-can-transmit-sense-touch-brain-cells/.

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. Space Shuttle: Status of Advanced Solid Rocket Motor Program. 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

Buchigari SR. A tool to automate the process of Unit testing of webapplications (Criterion V1.0). (2010).

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

Johnson G. Still Dreaming of Little Green Men. New York Times, SR3 (2016).

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

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