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

Lucchitta I. Comment on “Apatite 4He/3He and (U-Th)/He evidence for an ancient Grand Canyon.” Science 2013; 340:143.

A journal article with 2 authors

Norskov JK, Christensen CH. Chemistry. Toward efficient hydrogen production at surfaces. Science 2006; 312:1322–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bania TM, Rood RT, Balser DS. The cosmological density of baryons from observations of 3He+ in the Milky Way. Nature 2002; 415:54–7.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mochizuki N, Yamashita S, Kurokawa K, Ohba Y, Nagai T, Miyawaki A, Matsuda M. Spatio-temporal images of growth-factor-induced activation of Ras and Rap1. Nature 2001; 411:1065–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Le Doeuff R, Zaïm MEH. Rotating Electrical Machines. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Macfarlane PW, van Oosterom A, Pahlm O, Kligfield P, Janse M, Camm J, editors. Comprehensive Electrocardiology. 2nd ed. London: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Kong L-A, Wu W-J. The Construction of the Security Ability System in Coal Enterprise. In: Jin D, Lin S, editors. Advances in Electronic Engineering, Communication and Management Vol.2: Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Electronic Engineering, Communication and Management (EECM 2011), held on December 24–25, 2011, Beijing, China. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. page 19–24.

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

Hale T. Sensor Breakthrough Could Enable Smartphones To Detect Air Pollution. IFLScience2015;

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. Mass Transit Grants: Scarce Federal Funds Misused in UMTA’s Philadelphia Region. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Valley MT. Deciphering the function of granule cell interneurons in the mouse main olfactory bulb: Insights from adult neurogenesis and local-field potentials. 2010;

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

Baker P. As World Waits, President Warns Forces Are Ready. New York Times2017; :A1.

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

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