How to format your references using the Progress in Lipid Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in Lipid Research. 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]

Marshall S. Climate change. Glacier retreat crosses a line. Science 2014;345:872.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Zhang Z, Wang J. Long-range hybrid wedge plasmonic waveguide. Sci Rep 2014;4:6870.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Jedema FJ, Filip AT, Van Wees BJ. Spintronics (Communication arising): Spin accumulation in mesoscopic systems. Nature 2002;416:810.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ho H-N, Iwai D, Yoshikawa Y, Watanabe J, Nishida S. Combining colour and temperature: A blue object is more likely to be judged as warm than a red object. Sci Rep 2014;4:5527.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Brillson LJ. An Essential Guide to Electronic Material Surfaces and Interfaces. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Wyrzykowski R, Dongarra J, Karczewski K, Wasniewski J, editors. Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics: 8th International Conference, PPAM 2009, Wroclaw, Poland, September 13-16, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Part II. vol. 6068. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Xiao S, Lai EM-K, Premkumar AB. Rule-Based Power-Balanced VLIW Instruction Scheduling with Uncertainty. In: Srikanthan T, Xue J, Chang C-H, editors. Advances in Computer Systems Architecture: 10th Asia-Pacific Conference, ACSAC 2005, Singapore, October 24-26, 2005. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005, p. 28–40.

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 Progress in Lipid Research.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Global Surge In Renewables As Record Amount Is Invested In Clean Energy Sources. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/global-surge-renewables-record-amount-invested-clean-energy-sources/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. NASA: Status of Plans for Achieving Key Outcomes and Addressing Major Management Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Jin H. Periodic Motions and Bifurcation Tree in a Periodically Excited Duffing Oscillator with Time-delay. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2014.

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]

Pilon M. Drug-Testing Company Tied to N.C.A.A. Stirs Criticism. New York Times 2013:SP1.

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	Progress in Lipid Research
Abbreviation	Prog. Lipid Res.
ISSN (print)	0163-7827
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology