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. Dalton, R. 2000. US court slashes damages in polymerase-beta theft case. Nature. 407: 824.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. He, W., and T. Ren. 2013. Basilar membrane vibration is not involved in the reverse propagation of otoacoustic emissions. Sci. Rep. 3: 1874.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Neale, M. J., J. Pan, and S. Keeney. 2005. Endonucleolytic processing of covalent protein-linked DNA double-strand breaks. Nature. 436: 1053–1057.

A journal article with 51 or more authors

1. Ichinose, G., M. Saito, H. Sayama, and D. S. Wilson. 2013. Adaptive long-range migration promotes cooperation under tempting conditions. Sci. Rep. 3: 2509.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Chu, P. P. 2008. FPGA Prototyping by Verilog Examples. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

1. Delgado, J. M. P. Q. (ed.). 2014. Drying and Wetting of Building Materials and Components. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Markovski, J. 2013. In Computer Performance Engineering: 10th European Workshop, EPEW 2013, Venice, Italy, September 16-17, 2013. Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Balsamo, M. S., Knottenbelt, W. J., and Marin, A., eds.). pp. 43–57. , Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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. O`Callaghan, J. 2017. The Alien Megastructure Star May Have Eaten A Planet. IFLScience. [online] https://www.iflscience.com/space/alien-megastructure-star-eaten-a-planet/ (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. 2002. NASA: Compliance With Cost Limits Cannot Be Verified. 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. Curiel, A. R. 2013. A re-examination of the Meyers and Volbrecht motor equation for the identification of suspect effort.

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. Powell, M. 2017. Zen Phil Exits The Garden. The Knicks Will Endure. New York Times. B9.

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

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