How to format your references using the Lymphatic Research and Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Lymphatic Research and Biology (LRB). 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

Dahl-Jensen D. CLIMATE CHANGE: Enhanced: The Greenland Ice Sheet Reacts. Science 2000;289(5478):404–405.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boos WR, Kuang Z. Dominant control of the South Asian monsoon by orographic insulation versus plateau heating. Nature 2010;463(7278):218–222.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lu Z, Klem AM, Ramu Y. Ion conduction pore is conserved among potassium channels. Nature 2001;413(6858):809–813.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schaak RE, Klimczuk T, Foo ML, et al. Superconductivity phase diagram of Na(x)CoO2*1.3H2O. Nature 2003;424(6948):527–529.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yeakley CL, Fiebrich JD. Collaborative Process Improvement. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2015.

An edited book

Marín-García J. Aging and the Heart: A Post-Genomic View. (Goldenthal MJ, Moe GW. eds). Springer US: Boston, MA; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Matsuba S. Does History Have a Purpose?; History Theory of Merleau-Ponty in the Latter Half of the 1940S. In: Logos of Phenomenology and Phenomenology of the Logos. Book Three: Logos of History - Logos of Life. Historicity, Time, Nature, Communication, Consciousness, Alterity, Culture. (Tymieniecka A-T. ed). Analecta Husserliana Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 2006; pp. 65–77.

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 Lymphatic Research and Biology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Should We Just Let Pandas Die Out? IFLScience; 2015. [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Digests of Unpublished Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. II, No. 12. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mehmeti A. Intensive Dramaturgical Research Facilitated the Creation of the Character Soran Saleen in “The Poetry of Pizza.” Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA; 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

Johnson K. From Iraq to Oregon, a Global Lotto Jackpot. New York Times 2015;A15.

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	Lymphatic Research and Biology
ISSN (print)	1539-6851
ISSN (online)	1557-8585
Scope