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

Lok C. Plans to Reduce Acceptable Arsenic Limit Put on Hold. Nature 2001;410(6828):503.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schoch RR, Sues H-D. A Middle Triassic Stem-Turtle and the Evolution of the Turtle Body Plan. Nature 2015;523(7562):584–587.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sergio F, Newton I, Marchesi L. Conservation: Top Predators and Biodiversity. Nature 2005;436(7048):192.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vander Heiden MG, Locasale JW, Swanson KD, Sharfi H, Heffron GJ, Amador-Noguez D, Christofk HR, Wagner G, Rabinowitz JD, Asara JM, Cantley LC. Evidence for an Alternative Glycolytic Pathway in Rapidly Proliferating Cells. Science 2010;329(5998):1492–1499.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooper JD. Soil Water Measurement. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

Three Decades of Progress in Control Sciences: Dedicated to Chris Byrnes and Anders Lindquist, Hu X, Jonsson U, Wahlberg B, Ghosh B (eds). Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Levis AA, Papageorgiou LG. Active Demand Management for Substitute Products through Price Optimisation. In Supply Chain Planning: Quantitative Decision Support and Advanced Planning Solutions, Meyr H, Günther H-O (eds). Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; 1–27.

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

Hamilton K. Virtual Reality Tech May Make “Going Shopping’ In Real Life A Thing Of The Past https://www.iflscience.com/technology/virtual-reality-tech-may-make-going-shopping-in-real-life-a-thing-of-the-past/ (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. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration: Powered Industrial Truck Operator Training, OGC-99-21. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bannister RM. To What Extent Are the Grade Configurations of Middle/High Schools and High Schools Related to Student Engagement? Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 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

Vecsey G. Weather Doesn’t Dampen Latest Heart-Stopper in the Bronx. New York Times, 2009, SP3.

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

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