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

Fishman MC. Genomics. Zebrafish--the canonical vertebrate. Science 2001; 294:1290–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Watanabe N, Mitchison TJ. Single-molecule speckle analysis of actin filament turnover in lamellipodia. Science 2002; 295:1083–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hembacher S, Giessibl FJ, Mannhart J. Force microscopy with light-atom probes. Science 2004; 305:380–3.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rapp M, Seppälä S, Granseth E, von Heijne G. Emulating membrane protein evolution by rational design. Science 2007; 315:1282–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang S-L. Raman Spectroscopy and its Application in Nanostructures. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Spector JM, Ifenthaler D, Sampson DG, Isaias P, editors. Competencies in Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership in the Digital Age: Papers from CELDA 2014. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Hou C, Chang S, Lin J, Song D. Combined Perforator Flaps. In: Chang S, Lin J, Song D, editors. Surgical Atlas of Perforator Flaps: A Microsurgical Dissection Technique. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015. page 27–30.

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. Why Screen Time Before Bed Is Bad For Children. IFLScience2015;

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. Information Technology: Significant Problems of Critical Automation Program Contribute to Risks Facing 2010 Census. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chamoun A. Molecular characterization of a subset of KRAB-ZFPs. 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

Walker M. Choosing Photographs Over Paintings. New York Times2017; :C14.

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