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

Choi JR. The effects of nonextensivity on quantum dissipation. Sci Rep 2014; 4:3911.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sczepanski JT, Joyce GF. A cross-chiral RNA polymerase ribozyme. Nature 2014; 515:440–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Glasauer S, Langley S, Beveridge TJ. Intracellular iron minerals in a dissimilatory iron-reducing bacterium. Science 2002; 295:117–9.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Jiao Y, Shi C, Edil BH, de Wilde RF, Klimstra DS, Maitra A, Schulick RD, Tang LH, Wolfgang CL, Choti MA, et al. DAXX/ATRX, MEN1, and mTOR pathway genes are frequently altered in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Science 2011; 331:1199–203.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kölle W. Wasseranalysen - richtig beurteilt. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2009.

An edited book

Smeyers P, Depaepe M, editors. Educational Research: Why ‘What Works’ Doesn’t Work. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Kok LJJ, Poston K, Moore G. Bombardier Aerospace FSW Demonstrator. In: Komorowski J, editor. ICAF 2011 Structural Integrity: Influence of Efficiency and Green Imperatives: Proceedings of the 26th Symposium of the International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue, Montreal, Canada, 1-3 June 2011. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011. page 73–81.

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. Miniature Spinal Cords Grown In The Lab [Internet]. IFLScience2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/spinal-cord-tissue-grown-lab/

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. Biotechnology: Information on Prices of Genetically Modified Seeds in the United States and Argentina. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Marcus J. Voices of survival: Opera in Theresienstadt. 2012;

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

Gorman J. Flakes: These Monkeys Make Tools, but Don’t Use Them. New York Times2016; :D2.

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