How to format your references using the Journal of Clinical Lipidology citation style

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

Middelburg JJ. Oceanography. Escape by dilution. Science. 2015;348(6232):290.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gheiratmand M, Mullen KT. Orientation tuning in human colour vision at detection threshold. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4285.

A journal article with 3 authors

Taggart AKP, Teng SC, Zakian VA. Est1p as a cell cycle-regulated activator of telomere-bound telomerase. Science. 2002;297(5583):1023-1026.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yan H, Zhang X, Shen Z, Seeman NC. A robust DNA mechanical device controlled by hybridization topology. Nature. 2002;415(6867):62-65.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davies G. Designing and Developing Scalable IP Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Lepora NF, Mura A, Mangan M, Verschure PFMJ, Desmulliez M, Prescott TJ, eds. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: 5th International Conference, Living Machines 2016, Edinburgh, UK, July 19-22, 2016. Proceedings. Vol 9793. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Izdihar K, Kanaga KC, Nawal M, Vijaylakshimi K, Sulaiman T. Mean Glandular Dose and Figure of Merit of 2 Dimensional and 3 Dimensional Imaging in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis. In: Ibrahim F, Usman J, Mohktar MS, Ahmad MY, eds. International Conference for Innovation in Biomedical Engineering and Life Sciences: ICIBEL2015, 6-8 December 2015, Putrajaya, Malaysia. IFMBE Proceedings. Springer; 2016:20-23.

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 Journal of Clinical Lipidology.

Blog post

Andrew D. 10 Maps That Reveal How Major Cities Could Be Underwater By 2100. 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. Environmental Protection: Research and Development of Plasma Arc Technology Used to Treat Hazardous Waste. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alayed RA. Creating a Culture of Safety Using Electronic Medical Records as a Tool. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Shear MD. President Questions Clinton Ties To Russia. New York Times. June 15, 2017:A19.

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	Journal of Clinical Lipidology
Abbreviation	J. Clin. Lipidol.
ISSN (print)	1933-2874
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Internal Medicine Nutrition and Dietetics