How to format your references using the Intrinsically Disordered Proteins citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins. 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

Klein J. Chemistry. Repair or replacement--a joint perspective. Science 2009; 323:47–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seibel BA, Dierssen HM. Ocean science. Animal function at the heart (and gut) of oceanography. Science 2009; 323:343–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wootton SK, Halbert CL, Miller AD. Sheep retrovirus structural protein induces lung tumours. Nature 2005; 434:904–7.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Johnson N, Zhao G, Hunsader E, Qi H, Johnson N, Meng J, Tivnan B. Abrupt rise of new machine ecology beyond human response time. Sci Rep 2013; 3:2627.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liu E, Noppe-Brandon S. Imagination First. San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bass; 2011.

An edited book

Nicholson LA. Understanding the Caribbean Enterprise: Insights from MSMEs and Family Owned Businesses. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Mccall S. Quality of Life. In: Michalos AC, editor. Citation Classics from Social Indicators Research: The Most Cited Articles Edited and Introduced by Alex C. Michalos. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005. page 117–36.

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 Intrinsically Disordered Proteins.

Blog post

Davis J. Some Species May Be Able To Rapidly Adapt To Environmental Change By Altering Gene Expression [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/some-species-may-be-able-to-rapidly-adapt-to-environmental-change-by-altering-gene-expression/

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

Government Accountability Office. Space Launch System: Management Tools Should Better Track to Cost and Schedule Commitments to Adequately Monitor Increasing Risk. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Smith T. Outsider leadership transitions: A phenomenological study of Army Reserve General Officers. 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

Greenhouse L. Justices Order Rethinking Of eBay Case. New York Times2006; :C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Abbreviation	Intrinsically Disord. Proteins
ISSN (online)	2169-0707
Scope