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

Staunton H. Arousal by Stimulation of Deep-Brain Nuclei. Nature 2008;452(7183):E1; discussion E1-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Brien TG, Kinnaird MF. Conservation. Caffeine and Conservation. Science 2003;300(5619):587.

A journal article with 3 authors

Briggman KL, Abarbanel HDI, Kristan WB Jr. Optical Imaging of Neuronal Populations during Decision-Making. Science 2005;307(5711):896–901.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Funder S, Goosse H, Jepsen H, Kaas E, Kjær KH, Korsgaard NJ, Larsen NK, Linderson H, Lyså A, Möller P, Olsen J, Willerslev E. A 10,000-Year Record of Arctic Ocean Sea-Ice Variability--View from the Beach. Science 2011;333(6043):747–750.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

D’Amico G, Di Biase G, Janssen J, Manca R. Semi-Markov Migration Models for Credit Risk. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2017.

An edited book

Neurotropic Viral Infections: Volume 2: Neurotropic Retroviruses, DNA Viruses, Immunity and Transmission, Reiss CS (ed), 2nd ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Broda S, Cavadas S, Ferreira M, Moreira N. Deciding Synchronous Kleene Algebra with Derivatives. In Implementation and Application of Automata: 20th International Conference, CIAA 2015, Umeå, Sweden, August 18-21, 2015, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Drewes F (ed). Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; 49–62.

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

Taub B. Men’s Magazines Are Normalizing Sexist Bigotry, Study Finds https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/mens-magazines-normalizing-sexist-bigotry/ (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. General Aviation Airports: Unauthorized Land Use Highlights Need for Improved Oversight and Enforcement, RCED-99-109. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Woods RA. Missouri Legislator and Administrator Perceptions of Federal Government Involvement in Education. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University: St. Charles, MO, 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

Kelly M. The First Couple: A Union of Mind and Ambition. New York Times, 1993, A13.

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