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. Eliopoulos AG. Cell signaling. “Make and brake” in signaling. Science. 2008;321:648–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Smith MR, Caron J-B. Primitive soft-bodied cephalopods from the Cambrian. Nature. 2010;465:469–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Williams JR, Dicarlo L, Marcus CM. Quantum Hall effect in a gate-controlled p-n junction of graphene. Science. 2007;317:638–41.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Xiao-Hong Z, Lan-Hua L, Wei-Qi X, Bao-Dong S, Jian-Wu S, Miao H, et al. A reusable evanescent wave immunosensor for highly sensitive detection of bisphenol A in water samples. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4572.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Carter M, Bentley SP. Soil Properties and their Correlations. Chichester, UK: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Hershberg E, LeoGrande WM, editors. A New Chapter in US-Cuba Relations: Social, Political, and Economic Implications. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Maréchal L. Advances in Octree-Based All-Hexahedral Mesh Generation: Handling Sharp Features. In: Clark BW, editor. Proceedings of the 18th International Meshing Roundtable. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 65–84.

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. Hale T. The Most Incredible Meteor Shower In A Decade Will Peak This Week. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Federal Materials Research and Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975 Dec. Report No.: 094633.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ennaco WA. Mastering morphosyntax: A pre-experimental study on the effectiveness of a parent-training program for preschoolaged children with specific language impairment [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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. Walsh MW. A.I.G.’s Chief Says Insurer Is Reducing Its Risks. New York Times. 2015 May 2;B3.

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