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

Cuervo AM. Cell biology. Autophagy’s top chef. Science. 2011;332(6036):1392-1393.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gislason SR, Oelkers EH. Geochemistry. Carbon storage in basalt. Science. 2014;344(6182):373-374.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liang PS, Park TS, Yoon JY. Rapid and reagentless detection of microbial contamination within meat utilizing a smartphone-based biosensor. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5953.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cui XD, Primak A, Zarate X, et al. Reproducible measurement of single-molecule conductivity. Science. 2001;294(5542):571-574.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barbosa P, Berry DL, Kary CS. Insect Histology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Carey WM. Ocean Ambient Noise: Measurement and Theory. 1st ed. (Evans RB, ed.). Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Engquist B. Multi-scale Modeling. In: Benedicks M, Jones PW, Smirnov S, Winckler B, eds. Perspectives in Analysis: Essays in Honor of Lennart Carleson’s 75th Birthday. Mathematical Physics Studies. Springer; 2005:51-61.

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

Carpineti A. No, There Was No Special Facebook Live Feed From The ISS Today. 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. Responses to Questions for the Record; September 2008 Hearing on the Next Generation Air Transportation System: Status and Issues. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Turney JJ. Police Supervisory Attributes That Influence Attitude towards Critical Incident Stress Management Programs. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University; 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

Shpigel B. Obliviously, Wentz Fuels The Eagles’ Giddy Rise. New York Times. October 30, 2017:B7.

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