How to format your references using the Epilepsy Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Epilepsy Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

Jones, D., 2001. DaedalusThe tense road. Nature 411, 758.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ortiz, C., Boyce, M.C., 2008. Materials science. Bioinspired structural materials. Science 319, 1053–1054.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wood, M.J., Storz, G., Tjandra, N., 2004. Structural basis for redox regulation of Yap1 transcription factor localization. Nature 430, 917–921.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hwang, Y.-J., Lee, E.-W., Song, J., Kim, H.-R., Jun, Y.-C., Hwang, K.-A., 2013. MafK positively regulates NF-κB activity by enhancing CBP-mediated p65 acetylation. Sci. Rep. 3, 3242.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Balan, V., Neagu, M., 2011. Jet Single-Time Lagrange Geometry and Its Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

David, R., 2005. Discrete, Continuous, and Hybrid Petri Nets. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Malpica, A., Deavers, M.T., Silva, E.G., 2006. Selected Topics in Gynecologic Pathology, in: Eifel, P.J., Gershenson, D.M., Kavanagh, J.J., Silva, E.G. (Eds.), Gynecologic Cancer, M. D. Anderson Cancer Care Series. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 30–48.

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 Epilepsy Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. This Awesome Video Takes you on a Tour Inside the Human Heart [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1992. Computer Reservation Systems: Action Needed to Better Monitor the CRS Industry and Eliminate CRS Biases (No. RCED-92-130). 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

Campos-Doerfler, L., 2017. The Role of Sgs1 and Exo1 in the Maintenance of Genome Stability (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2016. Treasury Official Urges Relief for Puerto Rico, but Lawmakers Fear Fallout. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Jones, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Jones, 2001; Ortiz and Boyce, 2008).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Ortiz and Boyce, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Hwang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Epilepsy Research
Abbreviation	Epilepsy Res.
ISSN (print)	0920-1211
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology