How to format your references using the Peptides citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Peptides. 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

[1]

M. May, Regenerative medicine: Rebuilding the backbone, Nature 503 (2013) S7-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Rignot, R.H. Thomas, Mass balance of polar ice sheets, Science 297 (2002) 1502–1506.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Yang, N. Yang, B. Li, Reduction of thermal conductivity by nanoscale 3D phononic crystal, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1143.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Yu, J.G. Park, J.N. Kahn, N.E. Tumer, Y.-P. Pang, Common pharmacophore of structurally distinct small-molecule inhibitors of intracellular retrograde trafficking of ribosome inactivating proteins, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3397.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Pearson, C. Grace, Weight Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,., West Sussex, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Y. Lu, M. Essex, B. Roberts, eds., Emerging Infections in Asia, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Kitamura, Tissue Engineering Research and Cell Regenerative Therapy for Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD); National Cardiovascular Center (Japan) Trials, in: R. Magjarevic, J.H. Nagel (Eds.), World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006: August 27 – September 1, 2006 COEX Seoul, Korea “Imaging the Future Medicine,” Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007: pp. 5–5.

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 Peptides.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, Elon Musk Wants To Send Humans To Mars As Early As 2024, IFLScience (2016).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, National Aero-Space Plane: A Need for Program Direction and Funding Decisions, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N.-Q. Ton, A hierarchical wireless network architecture for building automation and control systems: Implementation and simulation study, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

J. Eligon, American Eyes on Race in Australia, New York Times (2017) A2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Peptides
Abbreviation	Peptides
ISSN (print)	0196-9781
Scope	Biochemistry Endocrinology Physiology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience