How to format your references using the Proteome Science citation style

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

1. Kleiner K. The shipping forecast. Nature. 2007;449:272–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Verstreken P, Bellen HJ. Neuroscience. The meaning of a mini. Science. 2001;293:443–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Weaver BAA, Silk AD, Cleveland DW. Cell biology: nondisjunction, aneuploidy and tetraploidy. Nature. 2006;442:E9-10; discussion E10.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Terabe K, Hasegawa T, Nakayama T, Aono M. Quantized conductance atomic switch. Nature. 2005;433:47–50.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Nussbaumer A, Borges L, Davaine L. Fatigue Design of Steel and Composite Structures. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG; 2012.

An edited book

1. Evgen’ev MB. Heat Shock Proteins and Whole Body Adaptation to Extreme Environments. Garbuz DG, Zatsepina OG, editors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Cadossi R. From Academy to Industry: Translational Research in Biophysics. In: Jarm T, Kramar P, Zupanic A, editors. 11th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biomedical Engineering and Computing 2007: MEDICON 2007, 26-30 June 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 10–3.

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 Proteome Science.

Blog post

1. Davis J. A Giant Among Dwarfs: New Species Of Dwarf Bushbaby Discovered In Angola [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/a-giant-among-dwarfs-new-species-of-dwarf-bushbaby-discovered-in-angola/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Changing Patterns of Federal Aid to State and Local Governments, 1969-75. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 Dec. Report No.: PAD-78-15.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Potter RH. Diffusion of oxygen and lithium isotopes at a contact between the Bushveld Complex and metasedimentary rock: Implications for the timescale of Phepane Dome diapirism [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2009.

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

1. Wagner J. Mets Find Trip to Series Has Cost in Pitching Staff. New York Times. 2016 Aug 25;B9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Proteome Science
Abbreviation	Proteome Sci.
ISSN (online)	1477-5956
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Biology