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

Wadman M (2005) Disappointment in slow-down for biomedical funding. Nature 433:559

A journal article with 2 authors

Lord KM, Turekian VC (2007) Science and society. Time for a new era of science diplomacy. Science 315:769–770

A journal article with 3 authors

Cheng Y-N, Wu X-C, Ji Q (2004) Triassic marine reptiles gave birth to live young. Nature 432:383–386

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Weinreich DM, Delaney NF, Depristo MA, Hartl DL (2006) Darwinian evolution can follow only very few mutational paths to fitter proteins. Science 312:111–114

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwartz P, Kempner M (2015) 50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Mehlhorn H (2016) Nanoparticles in the Fight Against Parasites. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Rüdenauer F, Koops HWP, Hobler G, et al (2008) Ion Beam Devices for Material Processing and Analysis. In: Eichmeier JA, Thumm MK (eds) Vacuum Electronics: Components and Devices. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 231–263

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 (2014) It’s a MOSQUITO TORNADO. In: IFLScience. 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 (1976) GAO Lead Division Plan for Automatic Data Processing. 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

Watts KS (2008) The Effectiveness of a Social Story Intervention in Decreasing Disruptive Behavior in Autistic Children. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

Crow K (2003) Learning to Be a Golightly Girl. New York Times 143

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

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