How to format your references using the Liver International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Liver International. 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. Gershon D. Collaborations prepare to untangle the circuitry of the brain. Nature. 2000;406:545–546.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Spitale JN, Porco CC. Association of the jets of Enceladus with the warmest regions on its south-polar fractures. Nature. 2007;449:695–697.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Nelson WA, McCauley E, Wrona FJ. Stage-structured cycles promote genetic diversity in a predator-prey system of Daphnia and algae. Nature. 2005;433:413–417.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wen P, Zheng N, Li L, Shi Q. Symmetrically periodic segregation in a vertically vibrated binary granular bed. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6914.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Blicq RS, Moretto LA. Writing Reports to Get Results. New York, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

1. Bojarski B, Mishchenko AS, Troitsky EV, Weber A, eds. C*-algebras and Elliptic Theory. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Pillai BVS, Kagale S, Chellamma S. Enhancing Productivity and Performance of Oil Seed Crops under Environmental Stresses. In: Venkateswarlu B, Shanker AK, Shanker C, Maheswari M, eds. Crop Stress and its Management: Perspectives and Strategies. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. p. 139–161.

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 Liver International.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Preserved Body Of Giant Tortoise “Lonesome George” Returns To Galapagos. IFLScience. 2017.

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. Information Technology: Critical Factors Underlying Successful Major Acquisitions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Sahib SS. Numerical solutions of Maxwell’s equations in 1D, 2D, and 3D via the finite element method. 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. Vecsey G. Kickers Form Bond And Find Sorority. New York Times. 2010;D6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Liver International
Abbreviation	Liver Int.
ISSN (print)	1478-3223
ISSN (online)	1478-3231
Scope	Hepatology