How to format your references using the Expert Review of Proteomics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Expert Review of 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	Download the output style file
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]

Pawar S. Ecology. Why are plant-pollinator networks nested? Science. 2014;345:383.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Istvan ES, Deisenhofer J. Structural mechanism for statin inhibition of HMG-CoA reductase. Science. 2001;292:1160–1164.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Rhee H, Polak L, Fuchs E. Lhx2 maintains stem cell character in hair follicles. Science. 2006;312:1946–1949.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Greaves SJ, Rose RA, Oliver TAA, et al. Vibrationally quantum-state-specific reaction dynamics of H atom abstraction by CN radical in solution. Science. 2011;331:1423–1426.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Gadd K. TRIZ for Engineers: Enabling Inventive Problem Solving. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Simões A, Diogo MP, Gavroglu K, editors. Sciences in the Universities of Europe, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Academic Landscapes. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Petrelli F, Barni S. Malignant Ascites: Diagnosis and Treatment. In: Kiselevsky MV, editor. Malignant Effusions: Pleuritis, Ascites, Pericardites. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. p. 57–76.

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 Expert Review of Proteomics.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Newly Developed 3D Printer Can Print With Ten Different Materials [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/newly-developed-3d-printer-can-print-ten-different-materials/.

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. Job Training Partnership Act: Racial and Gender Disparities in Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991. Report No.: T-HRD-91-42. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Smith KL. Initial construct validation of the color figure mazes test [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2012.

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]

Kelly M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Hometown; Perot Isn’t Necessarily Texarkana’s Favorite Son. New York Times. 1992 Jun 14;128.

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	Expert Review of Proteomics
Abbreviation	Expert Rev. Proteomics
ISSN (print)	1478-9450
ISSN (online)	1744-8387
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Biology