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]

Clutton-Brock T. Sexual selection in males and females. Science 2007;318:1882–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Huey RB, Moody WJ. Neuroscience and evolution. Snake sodium channels resist TTX arrest. Science 2002;297:1289–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mayya A, Banerjee A, Rajesh R. Mammalian cortical bone in tension is non-Haversian. Sci Rep 2013;3:2533.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Aten JA, Stap J, Krawczyk PM, van Oven CH, Hoebe RA, Essers J, et al. Dynamics of DNA double-strand breaks revealed by clustering of damaged chromosome domains. Science 2004;303:92–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Johnson Jr. MD WH, Moller MD JH. Pediatric Cardiology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Krupnik I, Aporta C, Gearheard S, Laidler GJ, Kielsen Holm L, editors. SIKU: Knowing Our Ice: Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zhao L, Bahaa F, Wilkins M. Tetrahydrobiopterin And Pulmonary Hypertension. In: Aldashev A, Naeije R, editors. Problems of High Altitude Medicine and Biology, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007, p. 69–86.

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]

Hale T. Sony Is Trying To Patent A Contact Lens That Can Record And Play Video At The Blink Of An Eye. IFLScience 2016.

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. Cloud-Seeding Activities Carried Out in the United States Under Programs Supported by the Federal Agencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Maitland J. Differences in Perceived Organizational Justice Based Upon Overall Performance Appraisal Ratings. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2017.

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]

Grimes W. Eldar Ryazanov, 88, Dies; Famed Russian Director Was a Master of Satire. New York Times 2015:B14.

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
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