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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. 2013. Plant breeding: Discovery in a dry spell. Nature 501:S7-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li R, Wang Y. 2013. Neural mechanism for sensing fast motion in dim light. Sci Rep 3:3159.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bintanja R, van de Wal RSW, Oerlemans J. 2005. Modelled atmospheric temperatures and global sea levels over the past million years. Nature 437:125–128.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Degroote P, Aerts C, Baglin A, Miglio A, Briquet M, Noels A, Niemczura E, Montalban J, Bloemen S, Oreiro R, Vucković M, Smolders K, Auvergne M, Baudin F, Catala C, Michel E. 2010. Deviations from a uniform period spacing of gravity modes in a massive star. Nature 464:259–261.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kassapoglou C. 2015. Modeling the Effect of Damage in Composite Structures. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Farber J, Crichton J, Snyder OP Jr eds. 2014. Retail Food Safety. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Colonna S, Folco G, Marangoni F. 2013. Vitamine e minerali. In: Folco G, Marangoni F, editors. I cibi della salute: Le basi chimiche di una corretta alimentazione. Milano: Springer. p 75–95.

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. 2015. Smartphone Microscope Diagnoses Parasitic Worm Infection. 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. 1989. Vocational Education: Opportunity to Prepare for the Future. 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

Baker NS. 2012. Bridging the Gap: Finding the Language of Soul.

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

Hartocollis A. 2014. A Play Is Set in a Hospital, in Two Ways. New York Times:C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenstein, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Eisenstein, 2013; Li and Wang, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Li and Wang, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Degroote 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