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]

Piston DW. Research tools: Understand how it works. Nature. 2012;484:440–441.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Iimura T, Pourquié O. Collinear activation of Hoxb genes during gastrulation is linked to mesoderm cell ingression. Nature. 2006;442:568–571.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Yan S, Huse DA, White SR. Spin-liquid ground state of the S = 1/2 kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet. Science. 2011;332:1173–1176.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Späth GF, Lye L-F, Segawa H, et al. Persistence without pathology in phosphoglycan-deficient Leishmania major. Science. 2003;301:1241–1243.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Alvarez PJJ, Illman WA. Bioremediation and Natural Attenuation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Bakker C, Montessori NM, editors. Complexity in Education: From Horror to Passion. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dam HH, Rojanavasu P, Abbass HA, et al. Distributed Learning Classifier Systems. In: Bull L, Bernadó-Mansilla E, Holmes J, editors. Learning Classifier Systems in Data Mining. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 69–91.

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]

Andrew E. Earth’s Other ‘Moon’ And Its Crazy Orbit Could Reveal Mysteries Of The Solar System [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/earth-s-other-moon-and-its-crazy-orbit-could-reveal-mysteries-solar-system/.

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 Safety: System Safety Approach Needs Further Integration into FAA’s Oversight of Airlines. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005. Report No.: GAO-05-726. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lim RH-J. A stylistic analysis of and performance suggestions for Robert Muczynski’s Second Piano Sonata, Opus 22 [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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]

Rothenberg B. In Wawrinka, Federer Will Face a Protégé With His Own Stellar Résumé. New York Times. 2017 Jan 24;B10.

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

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