How to format your references using the Protein Engineering Design and Selection citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Protein Engineering Design and Selection (PEDS). 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

Linde,D. von der (2003) Science, 302, 1345–1346.

A journal article with 2 authors

De Yoreo,J.J. and Dove,P.M. (2004) Science, 306, 1301–1302.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cao,Y.C., Jin,R. and Mirkin,C.A. (2002) Science, 297, 1536–1540.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Pan,C.T., Hinks,J.A., Ramasse,Q.M., Greaves,G., Bangert,U., Donnelly,S.E. and Haigh,S.J. (2014) Sci. Rep., 4, 6334.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lunn,G. (2005) HPLC Methods for Recently Approved Pharmaceuticals John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Katarzyniak,R., Chiu,T.F., Hong,C.F. and Nguyen,N.T. (eds) (2011) Semantic Methods for Knowledge Management and Communication Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Calzada,M.M. (2011) In Ricote,J. (ed), Multifunctional Polycrystalline Ferroelectric Materials: Processing and Properties. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 93–144.

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 Protein Engineering Design and Selection.

Blog post

Luntz,S. (2016) “Lucy’s” Bones Indicate Part-Time Life In The Trees IFLScience.

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 (2001) Medicare: Information Systems Modernization Needs Stronger Management and Support U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Casale,N. (2015) Generational preferences in marketing medium selections of animal adoptions in nonprofit organizations: A correlational study. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix.

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

Kelly,M. (1992) New York Times, 124.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (von der Linde, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (von der Linde, 2003; De Yoreo and Dove, 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (De Yoreo and Dove, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Pan et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Protein Engineering Design and Selection
Abbreviation	Protein Eng. Des. Sel.
ISSN (print)	1741-0126
ISSN (online)	1741-0134
Scope	Biochemistry Biotechnology Molecular Biology Bioengineering

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