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. Cibelli J. Developmental biology. A decade of cloning mystique. Science. 2007;316:990–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bergman R, Swenson J. Dynamics of supercooled water in confined geometry. Nature. 2000;403:283–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bylander J, Duty T, Delsing P. Current measurement by real-time counting of single electrons. Nature. 2005;434:361–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ota A, Mase J, Howteerakul N, Rajatanun T, Suwannapong N, Yatsuya H, et al. The effort-reward imbalance work-stress model and daytime salivary cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) among Japanese women. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6402.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Young SD. Psychology at the Movies. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

1. Candaele B, Soudris D, Anagnostopoulos I, editors. Trusted Computing for Embedded Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Zhu S, Wang W, Ravishankar CV. Stochastically Consistent Caching and Dynamic Duty Cycling for Erratic Sensor Sources. In: Gibbons PB, Abdelzaher T, Aspnes J, Rao R, editors. Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems: Second IEEE International Conference, DCOSS 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 18-20, 2006 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 67–84.

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. Hale T. Sex Toys Contain Less Dangerous Chemicals Than Children’s Toys [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/sex-toys-contain-less-dangerous-chemicals-than-childrens-toys/

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. ADP, IRM & Telecommunications 1986. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Jul. Report No.: IMTEC-87-18.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Becker LA. Noncredit to credit transitions: The role of cultural capital and habitus for adult immigrant learners in the community college [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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 C. ‘A Coarse Pleasure’ In Stories of Impostors. New York Times. 2014 Jan 12;A25B.

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