How to format your references using the Epileptology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Epileptology. 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

Piattelli-Palmarini M. Basic concepts: to put it simply. Nature. 2003 Dec 11;426(6967):607.

A journal article with 2 authors

Capraro V, Marcelletti A. Do good actions inspire good actions in others? Sci Rep. 2014 Dec 12;4:7470.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alben S, Shelley M, Zhang J. Drag reduction through self-similar bending of a flexible body. Nature. 2002 Dec 5;420(6915):479–81.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Perozo E, Cortes DM, Sompornpisut P, Kloda A, Martinac B. Open channel structure of MscL and the gating mechanism of mechanosensitive channels. Nature. 2002 Aug 29;418(6901):942–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nguyen T. Investing in the High Yield Municipal Market. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Abraham A, Kovalev S, Tarassov V, Snášel V, editors. Proceedings of the First International Scientific Conference “Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry” (IITI’16): Volume 1. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; vol. 450).

A chapter in an edited book

Zeira A. Testing Practice Wisdom in Child Welfare. In: Kamerman SB, Phipps S, Ben-Arieh A, editors. From Child Welfare to Child Well-Being: An International Perspective on Knowledge in the Service of Policy Making. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. p. 49–63.

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 Epileptology.

Blog post

Andrew E. We Could Find Alien Life, But Politicians Don’t Have The Will. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. National Highway System: Refinements Would Strengthen the System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Mar. Report No.: T-RCED-94-136.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Finley S. How online communication and social media networking are used in alcohol use treatment [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2014.

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

Brantley B. The Devil Went Down to Chelsea. New York Times. 2016 Dec 14;C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Piattelli-Palmarini 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Piattelli-Palmarini 2003; Capraro and Marcelletti 2014).

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

Two authors: (Capraro and Marcelletti 2014)
Three or more authors: (Perozo et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Epileptology
ISSN (print)	2212-8220
Scope	Clinical Neurology