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

Bains, W. Comment on “Orthographic Processing in Baboons (Papio Papio).” Science 2012, 337, 1173; author reply 1173.

A journal article with 2 authors

Deckert, R.; Dameris, M. Atmospheric Science. From Ocean to Stratosphere. Science 2008, 322, 53–55.

A journal article with 3 authors

Roche, D.; Paillard, D.; Cortijo, E. Constraints on the Duration and Freshwater Release of Heinrich Event 4 through Isotope Modelling. Nature 2004, 432, 379–382.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kuo, H.-C.; Hui, S.; Choi, J.; Asiegbu, F.O.; Valkonen, J.P.T.; Lee, Y.-H. Secret Lifestyles of Neurospora Crassa. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5135.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wexler, S.; Shaffer, J.; Cotgreave, A. The Big Book of Dashboards; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2017; ISBN 9781119283089.

An edited book

Hand, M.S. Economics of Wildfire Management: The Development and Application of Suppression Expenditure Models; Gebert, K.M., Liang, J., Calkin, D.E., Thompson, M.P., Zhou, M., Eds.; SpringerBriefs in Fire; Springer: New York, NY, 2014; ISBN 9781493905775.

A chapter in an edited book

Krugman, R.D. Introduction and Commentary: The Battered Child. In C. Henry Kempe: A 50 Year Legacy to the Field of Child Abuse and Neglect; Krugman, R.D., Korbin, J.E., Eds.; Child Maltreatment; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2013; pp. 21–22 ISBN 9789400740839.

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

Andrew, E. Plasma Fire Tornado Appears On The Sun Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/plasma-fire-tornado-appears-sun/ (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 A Look at NASA’s Aircraft Energy Efficiency Program; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1980;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nguyen, T.H. Adolescent Substance Use Family-Based Treatment: A Grant Proposal Project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 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

Barron, J. A Hospital, Once Afloat, Is Buoyant With Over a Century of Memories. New York Times 2017, A21.

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
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