How to format your references using the GLIA citation style

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

Gadagkar R. 2011. Evolution. Altruistic wasps? Science 333:833–834.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jenuwein T, Allis CD. 2001. Translating the histone code. Science 293:1074–1080.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jasny BR, Kelner KL, Pennisi E. 2008. Genetics of behavior. From genes to social behavior. Introduction. Science 322:891.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Luo M-X, Xu G, Chen X-B, Yang Y-X, Wang X. 2014. Efficient quantum transmission in multiple-source networks. Sci Rep 4:4571.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allin P, Hand DJ. 2014. The Wellbeing of Nations. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Wang H. 2016. China Goes Global: How China’s Overseas Investment is Transforming its Business Enterprises. (Miao L, editor.). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Turkoglu K, Olgac N. 2009. Robust Control for Multiple Time Delay MIMO Systems with Delay - Decouplability Concept. In: Loiseau JJ, Michiels W, Niculescu S-I, Sipahi R, editors. Topics in Time Delay Systems: Analysis, Algorithms and Control. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p 37–47.

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 GLIA.

Blog post

Carpineti A. 2016. Telescope Made From Water Allows Astronomers To Look Into The Extreme Energy Universe. IFLScience [Internet]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/water-telescope-look-extreme-energy-universe/

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. 1978. Improvements Needed in the Department of Energy’s Efforts To Develop a Financial Reporting System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Marshall LD. 2015. The jeweled net, sacred landscape, and the vision of the heart.

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

Mueller B, Southall A, Baker AL. 2016. Social Circles Collide on the Dance Floor. Then, a Deadly Brawl. New York Times:A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gadagkar, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Jenuwein and Allis, 2001; Gadagkar, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Jenuwein and Allis, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Luo et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	GLIA
Abbreviation	Glia
ISSN (print)	0894-1491
ISSN (online)	1098-1136
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Neurology