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

Zahnle K (2001) Decline and fall of the empire. Nature 412:209–213

A journal article with 2 authors

Pitman NCA, Jørgensen PM (2002) Estimating the size of the world’s threatened flora. Science 298:989

A journal article with 3 authors

Gleiche M, Chi LF, Fuchs H (2000) Nanoscopic channel lattices with controlled anisotropic wetting. Nature 403:173–175

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Opperman JJ, Galloway GE, Fargione J, et al (2009) Land use. Sustainable floodplains through large-scale reconnection to rivers. Science 326:1487–1488

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hartmann AK, Weigt M (2005) Phase Transitions in Combinatorial Optimization Problems. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Hazzan O (2008) Agile Software Engineering. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Kundu S, Khare D, Mondal A, Mishra PK (2014) Long Term Rainfall Trend Analysis (1871–2011) for Whole India. In: Singh M, Singh RB, Hassan MI (eds) Climate Change and Biodiversity: Proceedings of IGU Rohtak Conference, Vol. 1. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 45–60

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

Andrew E (2015) Drinking Coffee Could Help Protect Your DNA From Damage. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/drinking-coffee-could-help-protect-our-dna-damage/. 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 (1993) Department of Education: Long-Standing Management Problems Hamper Reforms. 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

Yuan J (2012) Two Essays on Asset Pricing. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Johnson G (2016) Recognizing the Artifice in Artificial Intelligence. New York Times D5

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