How to format your references using the Proteomes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Proteomes. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Baughman, R.H. Retrospective. Alan G. MacDiarmid (1927-2007). Science 2007, 315, 1678.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sheppard, S.S.; Jewitt, D.C. An Abundant Population of Small Irregular Satellites around Jupiter. Nature 2003, 423, 261–263.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cheung, W.W.L.; Watson, R.; Pauly, D. Signature of Ocean Warming in Global Fisheries Catch. Nature 2013, 497, 365–368.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Breitkreutz, A.; Choi, H.; Sharom, J.R.; Boucher, L.; Neduva, V.; Larsen, B.; Lin, Z.-Y.; Breitkreutz, B.-J.; Stark, C.; Liu, G.; et al. A Global Protein Kinase and Phosphatase Interaction Network in Yeast. Science 2010, 328, 1043–1046.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg, S.M. Controllership; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2009; ISBN 9781118268322.

An edited book

Atlas of Atherosclerosis and Metabolic Syndrome; Grundy, S.M., Ed.; Springer: New York, NY, 2011; ISBN 9781441958389.

A chapter in an edited book

Bennett, L. Drug Delivery to Specific Compartments of the Eye. In Ocular Drug Delivery: Advances, Challenges and Applications; Addo, R.T., Ed.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 37–52 ISBN 9783319476896.

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 Proteomes.

Blog post

Fang, J. The California Two-Spot Is The First Octopus To Have Its Genome Sequenced (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Airport and Airway Trust Fund: Declining Balance Raises Concerns over Ability to Meet Future Demands; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2011;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Randall, M.H. Information Technology Certification Programs and Perceptions of Attitude and Need by High School Principals, Information Technology Teachers, and Information Technology Professionals in Ohio. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, 2006.

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

Jorden, J. Scaling the Everest of Opera. New York Times 2017, AR8.

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	Proteomes
Abbreviation	Proteomes
ISSN (online)	2227-7382
Scope