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. Selkoe DJ. Folding proteins in fatal ways. Nature. 2003;426:900–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Smith DJ, Whitehouse I. Intrinsic coupling of lagging-strand synthesis to chromatin assembly. Nature. 2012;483:434–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Berg E, Metlitski MA, Sachdev S. Sign-problem-free quantum Monte Carlo of the onset of antiferromagnetism in metals. Science. 2012;338:1606–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lin S-H, Milošević MV, Covaci L, Jankó B, Peeters FM. Quantum rotor in nanostructured superconductors. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4542.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Minei I, Lucek J. MPLS-Enabled Applications. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Wolfrum R, Röben V, editors. Legitimacy in International Law. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Czajka P, Mizak W. Hybrid Vision System for Diagnostics of Technical Objects and Processes. In: Szewczyk R, Zieliński C, Kaliczyńska M, editors. Progress in Automation, Robotics and Measuring Techniques: Volume 3 Measuring Techniques and Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 27–37.

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. Andrew E. Animals Fight Bacteria Using Stolen Defense Systems. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Federally Funded R&D Centers: Issues Relating to the Management of DOD-Sponsored Centers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Aug. Report No.: NSIAD-96-112.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Howard R. Aging well adult day care center [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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. Kelly M. Political Memo; The New Year at a New Age Retreat: The Clintons in Agreeable Company. New York Times. 1992 Dec 31;A21.

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