How to format your references using the Translational Medicine in Diabetes, Lipids and Cardiovascular Prevention citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Translational Medicine in Diabetes, Lipids and Cardiovascular Prevention. 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]

R.N. Zare, Chemistry. Resonances in reaction dynamics, Science 311 (2006) 1383–1385.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Boltasseva, V.M. Shalaev, Materials science. All that glitters need not be gold, Science 347 (2015) 1308–1310.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Tsuchida, R. Koga, T. Fukatsu, Host plant specialization governed by facultative symbiont, Science 303 (2004) 1989.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N. Ohkouchi, T.I. Eglinton, L.D. Keigwin, J.M. Hayes, Spatial and temporal offsets between proxy records in a sediment drift, Science 298 (2002) 1224–1227.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Etheridge, Excel® Data Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

J. Tröger, Paediatric Imaging Manual, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E.P. Klement, R. Mesiar, Monotone Measures-Based Integrals, in: J. Kacprzyk, W. Pedrycz (Eds.), Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015: pp. 75–88.

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 Translational Medicine in Diabetes, Lipids and Cardiovascular Prevention.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Rise Of Sexual Inequality In Ancient China Revealed In Bones, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rise-of-sexual-inequality-in-ancient-china-revealed-in-bones/ (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 Overseas Schools: Compensation Adequate for Recruiting and Retaining Well-Qualified Teachers, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.D. Jordan, Measuring the efficacy of a Ninth Grade Academy on students with disabilities, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 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]

B. Sisario, Taylor Swift’s Single Breaks Spotify Record, New York Times (2017) C3.

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	Translational Medicine in Diabetes, Lipids and Cardiovascular Prevention
ISSN (print)	2214-7543
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