How to format your references using the Current Proteomics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current 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]

Martin, T.E. Ecology. The Cost of Fear. Science, 2011, 334, 1353–1354.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gerst, A.; Savage, M.K. Seismic Anisotropy beneath Ruapehu Volcano: A Possible Eruption Forecasting Tool. Science, 2004, 306, 1543–1547.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Rozin, P.; Haidt, J.; Fincher, K. Psychology. From Oral to Moral. Science, 2009, 323, 1179–1180.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Borg, L.E.; Shearer, C.K.; Asmerom, Y.; Papike, J.J. Prolonged KREEP Magmatism on the Moon Indicated by the Youngest Dated Lunar Igneous Rock. Nature, 2004, 432, 209–211.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Tagliani, M. The Practical Guide to Wall Street; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Adkins, W.A. Ordinary Differential Equations; Davidson, M.G., Ed.; Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics; Springer: New York, NY, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Özkaya, E.; Yazganoğlu, K.D. Alpha-2 Adrenergic Receptor Agonists. In Adverse Cutaneous Drug Reactions to Cardiovascular Drugs; Yazganoğlu, K.D., Ed.; Springer: London, 2014; pp. 93–97.

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 Current Proteomics.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews, R. Refuelling Japanese Volcano Could Destroy “Naples Of The East” By 2044 https://www.iflscience.com/environment/refuelling-japanese-volcano-destroy-naples-east-2044/ (accessed Oct 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. Information Technology: Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys Needs to Institutionalize Key IT Management Disciplines; GAO-03-751; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Henning, J.N. Top Ten Effective Community College Board Trustees Self-Perceived Leadership Attributes. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University: Malibu, CA, 2014.

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]

Kenigsberg, B. Read All About It, If You Still Can. New York Times, 2017, C10.

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	Current Proteomics
Abbreviation	Curr. Proteomics
ISSN (print)	1570-1646
ISSN (online)	1875-6247
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Biology