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]

Hollingsworth MD. Chemistry. Calcite biocomposites up close. Science 2009;326:1194–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Coulson T, Clegg S. Population biology: fur seals signal their own decline. Nature 2014;511:414–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Nielsen MH, Aloni S, De Yoreo JJ. In situ TEM imaging of CaCO₃ nucleation reveals coexistence of direct and indirect pathways. Science 2014;345:1158–62.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Cohen LJ, Esterhazy D, Kim S-H, Lemetre C, Aguilar RR, Gordon EA, et al. Corrigendum: Commensal bacteria make GPCR ligands that mimic human signalling molecules. Nature 2018;556:135.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Greenspan D. Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Erdem E, Lee J, Lierler Y, Pearce D, editors. Correct Reasoning: Essays on Logic-Based AI in Honour of Vladimir Lifschitz. vol. 7265. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Aldini A, Corradini F, Bernardo M. Component-Oriented Modeling. In: Bernardo M, Corradini F, editors. A Process Algebraic Approach to Software Architecture Design, London: Springer; 2010, p. 127–67.

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]

Luntz S. Rhinos Escape Caught On Video. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rhinos-escape-video/ (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. Opinion on the Legality of the Scheduled Transfer of Administrative Responsibility for Certain Law Enforcement Education Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Salie A. Servant-minded leadership and work satisfaction in Islamic organizations: A correlational mixed study. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 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]

Herrman J. Full Disclosure. New York Times 2017:MM11.

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