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

Graham-Rowe, D. Risk Analysis: A Dense Issue. Nature 2012, 485, S60-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Singh, H.; Demarco, I.A. Immunology. Double TIP-Ping. Science 2010, 329, 914–915.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, J.; Sato, T.; Kageyama, A. Repeated and Sudden Reversals of the Dipole Field Generated by a Spherical Dynamo Action. Science 2002, 295, 1887–1890.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sarin, K.Y.; Cheung, P.; Gilison, D.; Lee, E.; Tennen, R.I.; Wang, E.; Artandi, M.K.; Oro, A.E.; Artandi, S.E. Conditional Telomerase Induction Causes Proliferation of Hair Follicle Stem Cells. Nature 2005, 436, 1048–1052.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hinkelmann, K.; Kempthorne, O. Design and Analysis of Experiments: Advanced Experimental Design; Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005; ISBN 9780471709947.

An edited book

Innovation with Information Technologies in Healthcare; Berkowitz, L., McCarthy, C., Eds.; Health Informatics; Springer: London, 2013; ISBN 9781447143260.

A chapter in an edited book

Ash, J.M. Victor Shapiro and the Theory of Uniqueness for Multiple Trigonometric Series. In Harmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Complex Analysis, Banach Spaces, and Operator Theory (Volume 1): Celebrating Cora Sadosky’s life; Pereyra, M.C., Marcantognini, S., Stokolos, A.M., Urbina, W., Eds.; Association for Women in Mathematics Series; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 123–132 ISBN 9783319309590.

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, D. People With Autism Make More Logical Decisions Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/people-with-autism-make-more-logical-decisions/ (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 Aircraft Maintenance: Additional FAA Oversight Needed of Aging Aircraft Repairs (Vol. I); U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1991;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ko, T.-C.T. The ALISA Delta(CRC) Classifier for Natural Surfaces: Viewpoint-Invariant and Illumination-Invariant Classification of Natural Surfaces Using General-Purpose Color and Texture Features with the ALISA Delta(CRC) Classifier. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 2008.

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

Shear, M.D.; Steinhauer, J.; Flegenheimer, M. Sense of Crisis Deepens as Trump Defends F.B.I. Firing. New York Times 2017, A1.

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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