How to format your references using the Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

Lyons TW. Ocean science. Ironing out ocean chemistry at the dawn of animal life. Science 2008;321:923–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Keinan A, Clark AG. Recent explosive human population growth has resulted in an excess of rare genetic variants. Science 2012;336:740–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Richardson DS, Komdeur J, Burke T. Avian behaviour: Altruism and infidelity among warblers. Nature 2003;422:580.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Liu T, Xie C, Ma H, Zhang S, Liang Y, Shi L, et al. Gr-1+CD11b+ cells facilitate Lewis lung cancer recurrence by enhancing neovasculature after local irradiation. Sci Rep 2014;4:4833.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Torres-Moreno J-M. Automatic Text Summarization. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Gogolin AO. Lectures on Complex Integration. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Delaët S, Ducourthial B, Tixeuil S. Self-stabilization with r-Operators Revisited. In: Tixeuil S, Herman T, editors. Self-Stabilizing Systems: 7th International Symposium, SSS 2005, Barcelona, Spain, October 26-27, 2005. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005, p. 68–80.

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 Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. For Healthy Bird Development, Multiple Sperm Must Penetrate The Egg. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/healthy-birds-multiple-sperm-must-penetrate-egg/ (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. National Laboratories: Are Their R&D Activities Related to Commercial Product Development? Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wood ED. A Study of the Effect of Grouping Students and Results on the Ohio Achievement Assessment for Reading. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2017.

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]

Walsh MW. Puerto Rico Aims to Appease Congress With a New Proposal on Its Debt. New York Times 2016:B3.

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	Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy
Abbreviation	Seizure
ISSN (print)	1059-1311
Scope	General Medicine Clinical Neurology Neurology