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. Marquis RJ. Ecology. Herbivores rule. Science. 2004;305:619–21.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Fry CJ, Peterson CL. Transcription. Unlocking the gates to gene expression. Science. 2002;295:1847–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. James A, Pitchford JW, Plank MJ. Disentangling nestedness from models of ecological complexity. Nature. 2012;487:227–30.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Saunders A, Werner J, Andrulis ED, Nakayama T, Hirose S, Reinberg D, et al. Tracking FACT and the RNA polymerase II elongation complex through chromatin in vivo. Science. 2003;301:1094–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kovalenko NP, Krasny YP, Krey U. Physics of Amorphous Metals. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

1. Sommers LS, Launer J, editors. Clinical Uncertainty in Primary Care: The Challenge of Collaborative Engagement. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Houdré C, Ma J. On the Order of the Central Moments of the Length of the Longest Common Subsequences in Random Words. In: Houdré C, Mason DM, Reynaud-Bouret P, Rosiński J, editors. High Dimensional Probability VII: The Cargèse Volume. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 105–36.

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. Andrews R. Earthquake Detectors Pick Up Epic “Weather Bomb” On Other Side Of The World. 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. Status of the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Apr. Report No.: PSAD-78-37.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Li J. Growth Prediction of New Fractures in the Shadows of Existing Hydraulic Fractures in Shale Gas Formations [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2015.

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. St. John Kelly E. Bikes That Roll Toward Jobs. New York Times. 1998 Jun 14;149.

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