How to format your references using the Journal of Lipid Research citation style

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

1. Comerio, M. C. 2006. Earthquake anniversary. Can buildings be made earthquake-safe? Science. 312: 204–206.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Culjkovic-Kraljacic, B., and K. L. B. Borden. 2010. Cell biology. Puzzled by PML. Science. 330: 1183–1184.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bali, E., A. Audétat, and H. Keppler. 2013. Water and hydrogen are immiscible in Earth’s mantle. Nature. 495: 220–222.

A journal article with 51 or more authors

1. Wisotzki, L., R. Bacon, J. Brinchmann, S. Cantalupo, P. Richter, J. Schaye, K. B. Schmidt, T. Urrutia, P. M. Weilbacher, M. Akhlaghi, N. Bouché, T. Contini, B. Guiderdoni, E. C. Herenz, H. Inami, J. Kerutt, F. Leclercq, R. A. Marino, M. Maseda, A. Monreal-Ibero, T. Nanayakkara, J. Richard, R. Saust, M. Steinmetz, and M. Wendt. 2018. Nearly all the sky is covered by Lyman-α emission around high-redshift galaxies. Nature. 562: 229–232.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ansorge, R. 2005. Mathematical Models of Fluiddynamics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

1. Carson, E., and R. Huber (eds.). 2006. Intuition and the Axiomatic Method. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Eriksson, N. 2009. In Emerging Applications of Algebraic Geometry The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications (Putinar, M., and Sullivant, S., eds.). pp. 89–108. , Springer, New York, NY.

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 Lipid Research.

Blog post

1. Andrew, E. 2013. A patient in a vegetative state has been shown to ‘pay attention’ to sounds. IFLScience. [online] https://www.iflscience.com/brain/patient-vegetative-state-has-been-shown-‘pay-attention-sounds/ (Accessed October 30, 2018).

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

1. Government Accountability Office. 2001. Freight Railroad Regulation: Surface Transportation Board’s Oversight Could Benefit From Evidence Better Identifying How Mergers Affect Rates. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Plaza, J. L. 2012. The Latina/o migrant college student experience.

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

1. Wagner, J. 2016. Colon, After 3 Seasons With Mets, Agrees to Join Braves. New York Times. D2.

In-text citations

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

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 Lipid Research
Abbreviation	J. Lipid Res.
ISSN (print)	0022-2275
ISSN (online)	1539-7262
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Endocrinology