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

Korotev RL. Planetary science. A unique chunk of the Moon. Science. 2004;305(5684):622-623.

A journal article with 2 authors

van Enk SJ, Kimble HJ. Comment on “Quantum state transfer between matter and light.” Science. 2005;309(5738):1187; author reply 1187.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nasrallah ME, Liu P, Nasrallah JB. Generation of self-incompatible Arabidopsis thaliana by transfer of two S locus genes from A. lyrata. Science. 2002;297(5579):247-249.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gaudinier A, Rodriguez-Medina J, Zhang L, et al. Transcriptional regulation of nitrogen-associated metabolism and growth. Nature. 2018;563(7730):259-264.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shover L. Trading Options in Turbulent Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Chapman BM, Gropp WD, Kumaran K, Müller MS, eds. OpenMP in the Petascale Era: 7th International Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2011, Chicago, IL, USA, June 13-15, 2011. Proceedings. Vol 6665. Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Paldus J. Perturbation Theory. In: Drake G, ed. Springer Handbook of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. Springer; 2006:101-114.

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

Fang J. Asian Fungus is Killing European Salamanders, U.S. May Be Next. IFLScience. November 3, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/asian-fungus-killing-european-salamanders-us-may-be-next/

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. Implementing a Data Handling Policy for Space Science Flight Investigations. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Urquidi AJ. Condolences to All of You: Late Eulogies of a Half-Complacent Birthday Boy. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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

Dominus S. Halls of Justice. New York Times. September 7, 2016:MM58.

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