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

Maddox J. Maxwell’s demon: slamming the door. Nature 2002; 417:903.

A journal article with 2 authors

Feizi A, Bordel S. Metabolic and protein interaction sub-networks controlling the proliferation rate of cancer cells and their impact on patient survival. Sci Rep 2013; 3:3041.

A journal article with 3 authors

Logvenov G, Gozar A, Bozovic I. High-temperature superconductivity in a single copper-oxygen plane. Science 2009; 326:699–702.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Miller PJ, Biassoni N, Samuels A, Tyack PL. Whale songs lengthen in response to sonar. Nature 2000; 405:903.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joseph C. Advanced Credit Risk Analysis and Management. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

De Ponte FS, editor. Bisphosphonates and Osteonecrosis of the Jaw: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Milano: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Albright JN, Fair CD, Newman C. Psychosocial Considerations for Children and Adolescents with HIV. In: Chenneville T, editor. A Clinical Guide to Pediatric HIV: Bridging the Gaps Between Research and Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. page 73–94.

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

Hale T. Photographer Catches Moment Leopard Drags Big Cat Carcass From Tree And Cannibalizes It [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/photographer-catches-moment-leopard-drags-big-cat-carcass-from-tree-and-cannibalizes-it/

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. The Process for Identifying Needs and Establishing Requirements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Thomas Hurford CE. “In his arm the scar”: Medicine, race, and the social implications of the 1721 inoculation controversy on Boston. 2010;

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

Corkery M. Investors Lose Patience As Retail Fails to Rally. New York Times2017; :B3.

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