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]

Zimmer C. Beyond the ivory tower. A distant mirror for the brain. Science 2004;303:43–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Walck J, Dixon K. Time to future-proof plants in storage. Nature 2009;462:721.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Reznick DN, Mateos M, Springer MS. Independent origins and rapid evolution of the placenta in the fish genus Poeciliopsis. Science 2002;298:1018–20.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Csikor FF, Motz C, Weygand D, Zaiser M, Zapperi S. Dislocation avalanches, strain bursts, and the problem of plastic forming at the micrometer scale. Science 2007;318:251–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Gupta SK. Modern Hydrology and Sustainable Water Development. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Shute VJ, Becker BJ, editors. Innovative Assessment for the 21st Century: Supporting Educational Needs. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Li C, Xu L, Ye F, Chen J. An Adaptive Error Concealment Algorithm Based on Partition Model. In: Tan T, Wang G, Wang S, Liu Y, Yuan X, He R, et al., editors. Advances in Image and Graphics Technologies: 11th Chinese Conference, IGTA 2016, Beijing, China, July 8-9, 2016, Proceedings, Singapore: Springer; 2016, p. 35–43.

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]

Andrew E. Student Develops Inexpensive Solar Lens To Purify Polluted Water. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/student-develops-inexpensive-solar-lens-purify-polluted-water/ (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. Greater Use of Exemplary Education Programs Could Improve Education for Disadvantaged Children. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Frieberg A. The Project of Reconciliation: Journalists and religious activists in Polish -German relations, 1956–1972. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, 2008.

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]

Chira S. Well, What Should Hillary Clinton Do? New York Times 2017:SR4.

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