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

Bonvillian WB. Technology. Advanced manufacturing policies and paradigms for innovation. Science. 2013;342(6163):1173-1175.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xiang Y, Kobilka BK. Myocyte adrenoceptor signaling pathways. Science. 2003;300(5625):1530-1532.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chou CH, Chuang JK, Chen FC. High-performance flexible waveguiding photovoltaics. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2244.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Daffis S, Szretter KJ, Schriewer J, et al. 2’-O methylation of the viral mRNA cap evades host restriction by IFIT family members. Nature. 2010;468(7322):452-456.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dods RF. Understanding Diabetes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Rattani A, Roli F, Granger E, eds. Adaptive Biometric Systems: Recent Advances and Challenges. Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Bader M, Bayer J. THE MENTAL REPRESENTATION OF CASE. In: Bayer J, ed. CASE AND LINKING IN LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION: Evidence from German. STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS. Springer Netherlands; 2006:115-137.

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

Luntz S. Years Of fMRI Research May Be Wrong. 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. District of Columbia: Extent to Which Schools Receive Available Federal Education Grants. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Noxon C. Sedentism, Agriculture, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition: Insights from Jōmon Paleodemography. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic 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

KELLY STEWART; Kelly Stewart is a primatologist at Cambridge University. She has studied the behavior, ecology, Conservation of Mountain. CHRONICLES OF THE PUMPHOUSE GANG. New York Times. January 10, 1988:714.

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

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