How to format your references using the International Journal of Adipose Tissue and Stem Cells citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Adipose Tissue and Stem Cells. 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

[1]

Chamberlain JS. Genetics. A genetic intervention stands a skip away from clinical tests. Science 2012;338:1431–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Velian A, Cummins CC. Inorganic chemistry. Synthesis and characterization of P₂N₃⁻: an aromatic ion composed of phosphorus and nitrogen. Science 2015;348:1001–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gregoire LJ, Payne AJ, Valdes PJ. Deglacial rapid sea level rises caused by ice-sheet saddle collapses. Nature 2012;487:219–22.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bhardwaj PK, Kapoor R, Mala D, Bhagwat G, Acharya V, Singh AK, et al. Braving the attitude of altitude: Caragana jubata at work in cold desert of Himalaya. Sci Rep 2013;3:1022.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Li Y. Computer Principles and Design in Verilog HDL. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Mussida C, Pastore F, editors. Geographical Labor Market Imbalances: Recent Explanations and Cures. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bolatkale M, Breems LJ, Makinwa KAA. A 4 GHz Continuous-Time ΔΣ ADC. In: Breems LJ, Makinwa KAA, editors. High Speed and Wide Bandwidth Delta-Sigma ADCs, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 73–93.

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 International Journal of Adipose Tissue and Stem Cells.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. NASA To Use Hoverboard Technology To Control CubeSats In Space. IFLScience 2015.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. 2015 Electronically Controlled Pneumatic Brake Rule: Comparison of DOT Forecasts for Selected Data Points for 2015 and 2016 to Preliminary Data for Those Years. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Stewart AR. Entrepreneurial perception: A survey of graduates of a global management MBA program. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2009.

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

[1]

Soloski A. As Battered as Job, He Bills by the Hour. New York Times 2017:C5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Adipose Tissue and Stem Cells
ISSN (print)	2211-9116
Scope