How to format your references using the Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids. 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]

J. Pusey, Global Darwin: Revolutionary road, Nature. 462 (2009) 162–163.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K.C. Cheung, N. Gershenfeld, Reversibly assembled cellular composite materials, Science. 341 (2013) 1219–1221.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K.T. Lawrence, Z. Liu, T.D. Herbert, Evolution of the eastern tropical Pacific through Plio-Pleistocene glaciation, Science. 312 (2006) 79–83.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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A.F. Fang, G. Xu, T. Dong, P. Zheng, N.L. Wang, Structural phase transition in IrTe₂: a combined study of optical spectroscopy and band structure calculations, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1153.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Villarroel, Practical Clinical Epidemiology for the Veterinarian, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

M. Daydé, J. Dongarra, V. Hernández, J.M.L.M. Palma, eds., High Performance Computing for Computational Science - VECPAR 2004: 6th International Conference, Valencia, Spain, June 28-30, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Caragea, J. Zhang, J. Bao, J. Pathak, V. Honavar, Algorithms and Software for Collaborative Discovery from Autonomous, Semantically Heterogeneous, Distributed Information Sources, in: S. Jain, H.U. Simon, E. Tomita (Eds.), Algorithmic Learning Theory: 16th International Conference, ALT 2005, Singapore, October 8-11, 2005. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005: pp. 13–44.

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, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Where Might We Find Life In the Solar System?, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/where-might-we-find-life-solar-system/ (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, Navigation Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H. Ren, Modification and Characterization of Ordered Mesoporous Carbons for Resorcinol Removal, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 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]

M. Schwirtz, W.K. Rashbaum, D. Hakim, Trump Foot Soldier Sidelined Under Glare of Russia Inquiry, New York Times. (2017) A1.

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, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids
Abbreviation	Prostaglandins Leukot. Essent. Fatty Acids
ISSN (print)	0952-3278
Scope	Cell Biology Clinical Biochemistry