How to format your references using the Lipids citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Lipids. 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

Bignami GF (2000) The microscope’s coat of arms...or, the sting of the bee and the moons of Jupiter. Nature 405:999

A journal article with 2 authors

Yurtsever A, Zewail AH (2009) 4D nanoscale diffraction observed by convergent-beam ultrafast electron microscopy. Science 326:708–712

A journal article with 3 authors

Lacks DJ, Van Orman JA, Lesher CE (2012) Isotope fractionation in silicate melts. Nature 482:E1; discussion E1-2

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Qi W, Bi J, Zhang X, et al (2014) Damaging effects of multi-walled carbon nanotubes on pregnant mice with different pregnancy times. Sci Rep 4:4352

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kissell J (2009) Mac® Security Bible. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA

An edited book

Webb JF, Fay RR, Popper AN (2008) Fish Bioacoustics: With 81 Illustrations. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Agoshkov VI, Kamenschikov LP, Karepova ED, Shaidurov VV (2008) Numerical Solution of Some Direct and Inverse Mathematical Problems for Tidal Flows. In: Krause E, Shokin YI, Resch M, Shokina N (eds) Computational Science and High Performance Computing III: The 3rd Russian-German Advanced Research Workshop, Novosibirsk, Russia, July 23 - 27, 2007. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 31–43

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 Lipids.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Fish Can Tell People Apart By Their Faces. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fish-can-tell-people-apart-by-their-faces/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1998) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Compliance Status of Many Biomedical Equipment Items Still Unknown. 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

Williamson JW (2009) Measurements and analysis of extinction in vitiated flame sheets. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Vecsey G (2011) Walker and UConn a Long Way From One-and-Done. New York Times B20

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Lipids
Abbreviation	Lipids
ISSN (print)	0024-4201
ISSN (online)	1558-9307
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Organic Chemistry