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

Rejmánek M (2015) Ecology: Global trends in plant naturalization. Nature 525:39–40

A journal article with 2 authors

Jones PA, Takai D (2001) The role of DNA methylation in mammalian epigenetics. Science 293:1068–1070

A journal article with 3 authors

Batista CAS, Larson RG, Kotov NA (2015) Nonadditivity of nanoparticle interactions. Science 350:1242477

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ahanger SH, Günther K, Weth O, et al (2014) Ectopically tethered CP190 induces large-scale chromatin decondensation. Sci Rep 4:3917

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rittereiser CM, Kochard LE (2010) Top Hedge Fund Investors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Feng J (2015) Index and Query Methods in Road Networks. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Carroll JE (2016) The Environment is a Moral and Spiritual Issue. In: Dhiman S, Marques J (eds) Spirituality and Sustainability: New Horizons and Exemplary Approaches. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 49–71

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 D (2015) Could You Transfer Your Consciousness To Another Body? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/could-you-transfer-your-consciousness-another-body/. 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 (1985) Information on the Energy Information Administration’s Financial Reporting System. 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

Henning JN (2014) Top ten effective community college board trustees self-perceived leadership attributes. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Wagner J (2017) First-Base Prospect Finally Lives the Dream During a Mets Victory. New York Times D2

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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