How to format your references using the International Journal of Epilepsy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Epilepsy. 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

Wulff K. Examining knowledge of geometry. Science. 2006;312(5778):1309-1310; author reply 1309-10.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dunham-Snary KJ, Ballinger SW. GENETICS. Mitochondrial-nuclear DNA mismatch matters. Science. 2015;349(6255):1449-1450.

A journal article with 3 authors

Williams JR, Dicarlo L, Marcus CM. Quantum Hall effect in a gate-controlled p-n junction of graphene. Science. 2007;317(5838):638-641.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Saiz-Lopez A, Mahajan AS, Salmon RA, et al. Boundary layer halogens in coastal Antarctica. Science. 2007;317(5836):348-351.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pasternak JJ. An Introduction to Human Molecular Genetics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Brinkschulte U, Givargis T, Russo S, eds. Software Technologies for Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems: 6th IFIP WG 10.2 International Workshop, SEUS 2008, Anacarpi, Capri Island, Italy, October 1-3, 2008 Proceedings. Vol 5287. Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Morales Guerrero LE. A Story of Hilbert’s Tenth Problem. In: Omodeo EG, Policriti A, eds. Martin Davis on Computability, Computational Logic, and Mathematical Foundations. Outstanding Contributions to Logic. Springer International Publishing; 2016:93-105.

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 International Journal of Epilepsy.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. Incredible Images Show Comet Breaking Apart On Doomed Journey Through The Solar System. IFLScience. September 16, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/incredible-images-show-comet-breaking-apart-on-doomed-journey-through-the-solar-system/

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. Aviation Safety: FAA Is Considering Changes to Aviation Medical Standards. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Spowart SA. Long-Term Mindfulness Meditation: Anxiety, Depression, Stress and Pain, Is There A Connection For Public Health? Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida; 2014.

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

Rashbaum WK, Kaplan T. U.S. Says Assembly Speaker Took Millions in Payoffs, Abusing Office. New York Times. January 22, 2015:A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Epilepsy
Abbreviation	Int. J. Epilepsy
ISSN (print)	2213-6320
Scope	Clinical Neurology