How to format your references using the Prion citation style

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

Gershon D. Mass spectrometry goes mainstream. Nature 2003; 424:581.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gilmore MS, Ferretti JJ. Microbiology. The thin line between gut commensal and pathogen. Science 2003; 299:1999–2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaul M, Garden GA, Lipton SA. Pathways to neuronal injury and apoptosis in HIV-associated dementia. Nature 2001; 410:988–94.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pianta RC, Belsky J, Houts R, Morrison F, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Early Child Care Research Network. Teaching. Opportunities to learn in America’s elementary classrooms. Science 2007; 315:1795–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Voigtman E. Limits of Detection in Chemical Analysis. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Makarychev A, Yatsyk A, editors. Mega Events in Post-Soviet Eurasia: Shifting Borderlines of Inclusion and Exclusion. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Ford R, Rubeena, Redden RJ, Materne M, Taylor PWJ. Lentil. In: Kole C, editor. Pulses, Sugar and Tuber Crops. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. page 91–108.

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 Prion.

Blog post

Andrew E. Mars Rover Observations Suggest Giant Crater Used To Hold An Ancient Lake [Internet]. IFLScience2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/mars-rover-observations-suggest-giant-crater-used-hold-ancient-lake/

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. FAA Work Force Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rogers R. What Qualities Make an Effective Teacher Labor Union Leader? 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

Feeney K. Food That Recalls a Childhood. New York Times2008; :NJ12.

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	Prion
Abbreviation	Prion
ISSN (print)	1993-6896
ISSN (online)	1933-690X
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Infectious Diseases Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience