How to format your references using the Journal of Proteome Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Proteome Research. 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

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Leroy, A. Astrophysics: Glimpse into a Primitive Stellar Nursery. Nature 2015, 525 (7568), 195–197.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Atkinson, T.; Leeder, M. Geology. Canyon Cutting on a Grand Time Scale. Science 2008, 319 (5868), 1343–1344.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Sato, T. K.; Overduin, M.; Emr, S. D. Location, Location, Location: Membrane Targeting Directed by PX Domains. Science 2001, 294 (5548), 1881–1885.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Smith, O.; Clapham, A.; Rose, P.; Liu, Y.; Wang, J.; Allaby, R. G. A Complete Ancient RNA Genome: Identification, Reconstruction and Evolutionary History of Archaeological Barley Stripe Mosaic Virus. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Wang, Z.-G. Internal Combustion Processes of Liquid Rocket Engines; John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte Ltd: Singapore, 2016.

An edited book

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L’Abate, L. Relational Competence Theory: Research and Mental Health Applications; Cusinato, M., Maino, E., Colesso, W., Scilletta, C., Eds.; Springer: New York, NY, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

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Windsor, S. P. Hydrodynamic Imaging by Blind Mexican Cavefish. In Flow Sensing in Air and Water: Behavioral, Neural and Engineering Principles of Operation; Bleckmann, H., Mogdans, J., Coombs, S. L., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014; pp 103–125.

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 Proteome Research.

Blog post

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Andrew, D. Why Do You Feel Like You’re Falling When You Go To Sleep? IFLScience.

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

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Government Accountability Office. Possible Misuse of Public Funds in Sale of Park Land; B-168174; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1970.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Ross, N. J. Facilitating Shared Understanding: A Grounded Theory for Decision-Making in Pain Management. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 2015.

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

(1)

Hodara, S. A Marriage of Visual Masters. New York Times. April 27, 2014, p WE11.

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 Proteome Research
Abbreviation	J. Proteome Res.
ISSN (print)	1535-3893
ISSN (online)	1535-3907
Scope	Biochemistry General Chemistry