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

Toggweiler JR (2009) Climate change. Shifting westerlies. Science 323:1434–1435

A journal article with 2 authors

Bell AM, Robinson GE (2011) Genomics. Behavior and the dynamic genome. Science 332:1161–1162

A journal article with 3 authors

Kippenberg TJ, Holzwarth R, Diddams SA (2011) Microresonator-based optical frequency combs. Science 332:555–559

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gao X-R, Zhang S-L, Yang Y-F, Han G-R (2014) FEN1 -69G>A and 4150G>T polymorphisms and cancer risk in Chinese population. Sci Rep 4:6183

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tms (2014) TMS 2014 Supplemental Proceedings. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Monastyrsky MI (2006) Topology in Condensed Matter. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Reinhard T (2009) Suspected Epstein–Barr Virus (EBV) Disease of the Anterior Segment. In: Sundmacher R (ed) Color Atlas of Herpetic Eye Diseases: A Practical Guide to Clinical Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 163–165

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

Andrews R (2016) Violent Volcanic Eruption In Costa Rica Smothers Capital City In Ash. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/violent-volcanic-eruption-costa-rica-has-smothered-capital-city-ash/. 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 (1999) Telecommunications: FCC Does Not Know if All Required Fees Are Collected. 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

Smith MP (2009) De la página a la pantalla: Memoria de la Guerra Civil española en la narrativa contemporánea. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Wagner J (2017) Not for the First Time, Harvey Apologizes. New York Times B9

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