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. Rapoport TA. Protein translocation across the eukaryotic endoplasmic reticulum and bacterial plasma membranes. Nature. 2007;450:663–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Tumer EC, Brainard MS. Performance variability enables adaptive plasticity of “crystallized” adult birdsong. Nature. 2007;450:1240–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Uraguchi D, Ueki Y, Ooi T. Chiral organic ion pair catalysts assembled through a hydrogen-bonding network. Science. 2009;326:120–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Mahecha MD, Reichstein M, Carvalhais N, Lasslop G, Lange H, Seneviratne SI, et al. Global convergence in the temperature sensitivity of respiration at ecosystem level. Science. 2010;329:838–40.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Samuels J. The Trader’s Pendulum. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Kaźmierski TJ, Morawiec A, editors. System Specification and Design Languages: Selected Contributions from FDL 2010. 1st ed. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Butler JL, Sherman CH. Transducers as Projectors. In: Sherman CH, editor. Transducers and Arrays for Underwater Sound. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 185–280.

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. Andrew E. Why Are We Afraid Of Spiders? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Aviation Safety: FAA’s Risk-Based Oversight for Repair Stations Could Benefit from Additional Airline Data and Performance Metrics [Reissued on September 2, 2016]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Jul. Report No.: GAO-16-679.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Evans MD. A Correlational Analysis of Teacher Observation Scores and Student Achievement [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 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. Chira S. Cosby Is the Man on Trial. But So Are Power Dynamics. New York Times. 2017 Jun 8;C1.

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

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