How to format your references using the Lipids in Health and Disease citation style

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

1. Serageldin I. The rice genome. World poverty and hunger--the challenge for science. Science. 2002;296:54–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kirchner JW, Weil A. Delayed biological recovery from extinctions throughout the fossil record. Nature. 2000;404:177–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Cai L, Dalal CK, Elowitz MB. Frequency-modulated nuclear localization bursts coordinate gene regulation. Nature. 2008;455:485–90.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Carreira S, Goodall J, Aksan I, La Rocca SA, Galibert M-D, Denat L, et al. Mitf cooperates with Rb1 and activates p21Cip1 expression to regulate cell cycle progression. Nature. 2005;433:764–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hopkins D. Reading Paradise Lost. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Vilar R, editor. Recognition of Anions. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Basu R. California and Climate Changes. In: Pinkerton KE, Rom WN, editors. Global Climate Change and Public Health. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 71–83.

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 in Health and Disease.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Gravitational Waves Help Unravel The History Of Black Holes [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/gravitational-waves-help-unravel-the-history-of-black-holes/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Diffusing Innovations: Implementing the Technology Transfer Act of 1986. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 May. Report No.: T-PEMD-91-5.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Bornmann JW. Becoming soldiers: Army Basic Training and the negotiation of identity [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2009.

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

1. St. John Kelly E. History From Her Side. New York Times. 1995 Mar 5;1312.

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 in Health and Disease
Abbreviation	Lipids Health Dis.
ISSN (online)	1476-511X
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry Endocrinology Biochemistry, medical Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism