How to format your references using the Clinical Proteomics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Proteomics. 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. Clayton DD. We have touched the dust from dying stars. Nature. 2000;404:329.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Gabaldón T, Huynen MA. Reconstruction of the proto-mitochondrial metabolism. Science. 2003;301:609.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Coumou D, Driesner T, Heinrich CA. The structure and dynamics of mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal systems. Science. 2008;321:1825–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Dall’Osso F, Dominey-Howes D, Moore C, Summerhayes S, Withycombe G. The exposure of Sydney (Australia) to earthquake-generated tsunamis, storms and sea level rise: a probabilistic multi-hazard approach. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7401.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Armaroli N, Balzani V, Serpone N. Powering Planet Earth. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

1. Fornæss JE, Irgens M, Wold EF, editors. Complex Geometry and Dynamics: The Abel Symposium 2013. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Singh L. Stories Gogo Never Told. In: Francis DA, editor. Acting on HIV: Using Drama to Create Possibilities for Change. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2011. p. 43–53.

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 Clinical Proteomics.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Entire Human Genome Can Now Be Sequenced For Just $1,000 [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/entire-human-genome-can-now-be-read-1000/

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. Aviation Security: TSA’s Staffing Allocation Model Is Useful for Allocating Staff among Airports, but Its Assumptions Should Be Systematically Reassessed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Feb. Report No.: GAO-07-299.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Batistick SA. Reclaiming One’s Gold: Imagining the Inner Child Through the Art of Therapeutic Fairy Tale Writing [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2015.

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. (nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Recovering The Kursk. New York Times. 2001 Oct 18;A6.

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	Clinical Proteomics
Abbreviation	Clin. Proteomics
ISSN (print)	1542-6416
ISSN (online)	1559-0275
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine