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

Butler D. 2001. The battle of Tugen Hills. Nature 410:508–509.

A journal article with 2 authors

Macosko EZ, McCarroll SA. 2013. Genetics. Our fallen genomes. Science 342:564–565.

A journal article with 3 authors

Peñuelas J, Rutishauser T, Filella I. 2009. Ecology. Phenology feedbacks on climate change. Science 324:887–888.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Mameli M, Balland B, Luján R, Lüscher C. 2007. Rapid synthesis and synaptic insertion of GluR2 for mGluR-LTD in the ventral tegmental area. Science 317:530–533.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boeker E, Van Grondelle R. 2011. Environmental Physics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Shackelford TK, Pound N eds. 2006. Sperm Competition in Humans: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Goetze C. 2016. Bringing Claude Lévi-Strauss and Pierre Bourdieu Together for a Post-structuralist Methodology to Analyse Myths. In: Bliesemann de Guevara B, editor. Myth and Narrative in International Politics: Interpretive Approaches to the Study of IR. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. p 87–105.

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

Andrew E. 2014. The Most Influential Scientist You May Never Have Heard Of. IFLScience.

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. 1991. Air Traffic Control: FAA’s Transition of Communications System to Digital Technology. 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

Ayer EW. 2013. An N-gram enhanced learning classifier for Chinese character recognition.

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

Kelly C. 2000. Higher Profile for a Little-Known Foundation. New York Times:14WC8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butler, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Butler, 2001; Macosko and McCarroll, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Macosko and McCarroll, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Mameli et al., 2007)

About the journal

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