How to format your references using the Digestive and Liver Disease Supplements citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Digestive and Liver Disease Supplements. 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

[1]

Orbach RL. Retrospective. John Harmen Marburger III (1941-2011). Science 2011;333:1233.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Buschman TJ, Miller EK. Top-down versus bottom-up control of attention in the prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices. Science 2007;315:1860–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zhao J, Liu Q, Wang X. Competitive dynamics on complex networks. Sci Rep 2014;4:5858.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Boudaoud A, Patrício P, Couder Y, Amar MB. Dynamics of singularities in a constrained elastic plate. Nature 2000;407:718–20.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Minei I, Lucek J. MPLS-Enabled Applications. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Haynes G, editor. American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kutteh WH. Inherited and Acquired Thrombophilias and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes. In: Bashiri A, Harlev A, Agarwal A, editors. Recurrent Pregnancy Loss: Evidence-Based Evaluation, Diagnosis and Treatment, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 67–73.

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 Digestive and Liver Disease Supplements.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. Skin Cells Seen “Walking” Towards Wounds. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/skin-cells-seen-walking-towards-wounds/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. FAA Computer Security: Recommendations to Address Continuing Weaknesses. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Starr MJ. Tests for Positive Selection on Genes Encoding Heat Shock Proteins in the Marine Slipper Snail, Crepidula fornicata. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2015.

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

[1]

Vecsey G. Griffin’s Garden: Jeers and Big-Game Feel Greet High-Profile Visitor. New York Times 2011:B15.

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	Digestive and Liver Disease Supplements
Abbreviation	Dig. Liver Dis. Suppl.
ISSN (print)	1594-5804
Scope	Gastroenterology Hepatology

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