How to format your references using the Prostaglandins and Other Lipid Mediators citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Prostaglandins and Other Lipid Mediators. 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]

B. Hanson, Mercury, up-close again. Introduction, Science 321 (2008) 58.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

I. Galiana, C. Green, Let the global technology race begin, Nature 462 (2009) 570–571.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Zhao, A.S. Goldman, J.F. Hartwig, Oxidative addition of ammonia to form a stable monomeric amido hydride complex, Science 307 (2005) 1080–1082.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Kogar, M.S. Rak, S. Vig, A.A. Husain, F. Flicker, Y.I. Joe, L. Venema, G.J. MacDougall, T.C. Chiang, E. Fradkin, J. van Wezel, P. Abbamonte, Signatures of exciton condensation in a transition metal dichalcogenide, Science 358 (2017) 1314–1317.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Waupsh, Bankruption, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

S. Frühwirth-Schnatter, A. Bitto, G. Kastner, A. Posekany, eds., Bayesian Statistics from Methods to Models and Applications: Research from BAYSM 2014, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Vanoverberghe, N. Bjørner, J. de Halleux, W. Schulte, N. Tillmann, Using Dynamic Symbolic Execution to Improve Deductive Verification, in: K. Havelund, R. Majumdar, J. Palsberg (Eds.), Model Checking Software: 15th International SPIN Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 10-12, 2008 Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 9–25.

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 Prostaglandins and Other Lipid Mediators.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Researchers Develop Octopus-Inspired, Color-Changing Camouflage Material, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/researchers-develop-octopus-inspired-color-changing-camouflage-material/ (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, DOD Computer Contracting: Inadequate Management Wasted Millions of Dollars, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Krishnan, Generalized Conditional Matching Algorithm for Ordered and Unordered Sets, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 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]

L. Greenhouse, Justices Support Guidelines for Sentencing, New York Times (2007) A18.

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	Prostaglandins and Other Lipid Mediators
Abbreviation	Prostaglandins Other Lipid Mediat.
ISSN (print)	1098-8823
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Physiology Pharmacology