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

Eisenstein M. 2011. Telomeres: All’s well that ends well. Nature 478:S13-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Huybers P, Wunsch C. 2005. Obliquity pacing of the late Pleistocene glacial terminations. Nature 434:491–494.

A journal article with 3 authors

He W, Cowin P, Stokes DL. 2003. Untangling desmosomal knots with electron tomography. Science 302:109–113.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Niu H, Chung W-H, Zhu Z, Kwon Y, Zhao W, Chi P, Prakash R, Seong C, Liu D, Lu L, Ira G, Sung P. 2010. Mechanism of the ATP-dependent DNA end-resection machinery from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nature 467:108–111.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stratton JA. 2015. Electromagnetic Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Krause J. 2010. SharePoint 2010 as a Development Platform. (Langhirt C, Sterff A, Pehlke B, Döring M, editors.). Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Benirschke K, Burton GJ, Baergen RN. 2012. Early Development of the Human Placenta. In: Burton GJ, Baergen RN, editors. Pathology of the Human Placenta. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p 41–53.

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. There Will Be 5 Planets Visible In June, Here’s How To See Them. IFLScience [Internet]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/there-will-be-5-planets-visible-june-heres-how-see-them/

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. 2008. Disconnected Youth: Federal Action Could Address Some of the Challenges Faced by Local Programs That Reconnect Youth to Education and Employment. 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

Barajas D. 2010. The marginalization of Zitkala-Ša and Wendy Rose.

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. 2011. New Nets Announcer Shows Flair and Hair. New York Times:B16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenstein, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Huybers and Wunsch, 2005; Eisenstein, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Huybers and Wunsch, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Niu et al., 2010)

About the journal

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