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

Blázquez MA. Plant science. The right time and place for making flowers. Science 2005; 309:1024–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Metz M, Fütterer J. Biodiversity (Communications arising): suspect evidence of transgenic contamination. Nature 2002; 416:600–1; discussion 600, 602.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oye KA, Lawson JCH, Bubela T. Drugs: Regulate “home-brew” opiates. Nature 2015; 521:281–3.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bunders MJ, van Hamme JL, Jansen MH, Boer K, Kootstra NA, Kuijpers TW. Fetal exposure to HIV-1 alters chemokine receptor expression by CD4+T cells and increases susceptibility to HIV-1. Sci Rep 2014; 4:6690.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Horton W. E-Learning by Design. San Francisco, CA, USA: Pfeiffer; 2011.

An edited book

Gould IM, Meer JWM van der, editors. Antibiotic Policies: Theory and Practice. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Belem JMFM, Savioli B, de Souza AWS. Search for Autoantibodies in Systemic Vasculitis: Is It Useful? In: Dammacco F, Ribatti D, Vacca A, editors. Systemic Vasculitides: Current Status and Perspectives. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. page 29–41.

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. Scientists Are Looking To Pay People $17,000 To Lay In Bed For 60 days [Internet]. IFLScience2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-are-looking-to-pay-people-17000-to-lay-in-bed-for-60-days/

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. Microwave Landing Systems: Additional Systems Should Not Be Procured Unless Benefits Proven. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Peters B. From Cybernetics to Cyber Networks: Norbert Wiener, the Soviet Internet, and the Cold War Dawn of Information Universalism. 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

Dynarski S. A Divide That Goes Beyond Lunch. New York Times2016; :BU6.

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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