How to format your references using the Journal of Peptide Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Peptide Science. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Ffrench-Constant RH. Genomics: Of Monarchs and Migration. Nature 2014;514(7522):314–315.

A journal article with 2 authors

Custers R, Aarts H. The Unconscious Will: How the Pursuit of Goals Operates Outside of Conscious Awareness. Science 2010;329(5987):47–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Linnerooth-Bayer J, Mechler R, Pflug G. Refocusing Disaster Aid. Science 2005;309(5737):1044–1046.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kellis M, Patterson N, Endrizzi M, Birren B, Lander ES. Sequencing and Comparison of Yeast Species to Identify Genes and Regulatory Elements. Nature 2003;423(6937):241–254.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chan EP. Algorithmic Trading. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems: 6th International Conference, HAIS 2011, Wroclaw, Poland, May 23-25, 2011, Proceedings, Part II, Vol. 6679, Corchado E, Kurzyński M, Woźniak M (eds), Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Vorugunti CS, Sarvabhatla M. A More Efficient and Secure Authentication Scheme over Insecure Networks Using Smart Cards. In Security in Computing and Communications: International Symposium, SSCC 2013, Mysore, India, August 22-24, 2013. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Thampi SM, Atrey PK, Fan C-I, Perez GM (eds). Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; 42–51.

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 Journal of Peptide Science.

Blog post

Fang J. Humpback Whales Are Three Separate Subspecies https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/humpback-whales-are-three-separate-subspecies/ (accessed Oct 30, 2018).

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. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority: Contracting Practices Do Not Always Comply with Airport Lease Requirements, GAO-02-36. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lee MY-L. The Intellectual Origins of Lin Yutang’s Cultural Internationalism, 1928–1938. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, MD, 2009.

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

Shpigel B. Rangers Even Series With Emphatic Win as Lindberg Scores Twice. New York Times, 2017, B9.

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	Journal of Peptide Science
Abbreviation	J. Pept. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1075-2617
ISSN (online)	1099-1387
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine Structural Biology Organic Chemistry General Medicine Drug Discovery Pharmacology