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

Kociak, M., 2015. Microscopy: Quantum control of free electrons. Nature 521, 166–167.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gamerdinger, M., Deuerling, E., 2014. Biochemistry. Trigger factor flexibility. Science 344, 590–591.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maier, T., Jenni, S., Ban, N., 2006. Architecture of mammalian fatty acid synthase at 4.5 A resolution. Science 311, 1258–1262.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Milner, J.J., Toma, C., Yu, B., Zhang, K., Omilusik, K., Phan, A.T., Wang, D., Getzler, A.J., Nguyen, T., Crotty, S., Wang, W., Pipkin, M.E., Goldrath, A.W., 2017. Runx3 programs CD8+ T cell residency in non-lymphoid tissues and tumours. Nature 552, 253–257.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nguyen, K., Guo, X., Pan, Y., 2016. Multiple Biological Sequence Alignment: Scoring Functions, Algorithms and Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Shult, E., 2015. Algebra: A Teaching and Source Book. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Jones, J.M., Lea-Langton, A.R., Ma, L., Pourkashanian, M., Williams, A., 2014. Pollutant Formation and Health Effects, in: Lea-Langton, A.R., Ma, L., Pourkashanian, M., Williams, A. (Eds.), Pollutants Generated by the Combustion of Solid Biomass Fuels, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, London, pp. 45–61.

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

Andrews, R., 2017. 16 Awesome New Things We Learned In 2016 [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/16-awesome-new-things-we-learned-in-2016/ (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, 1989. Barriers to Competition in the Airline Industry (No. T-RCED-89-66). 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

Pei, X., 2008. Acid modification of psyllium (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Pilon, M., 2012. All-American Match, All-American Ending. New York Times B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kociak, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gamerdinger and Deuerling, 2014; Kociak, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Gamerdinger and Deuerling, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Milner et al., 2017)

About the journal

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