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

Bainbridge, W.S. The Scientific Research Potential of Virtual Worlds. Science 2007, 317, 472–476.

A journal article with 2 authors

Milton, A.L.; Everitt, B.J. Neuroscience. Wiping Drug Memories. Science 2012, 336, 167–168.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bishop, J.K.B.; Davis, R.E.; Sherman, J.T. Robotic Observations of Dust Storm Enhancement of Carbon Biomass in the North Pacific. Science 2002, 298, 817–821.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, N.; Chen, H.; He, H.; Norimatsu, W.; Kusunoki, M.; Koumoto, K. Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance of Nb-Doped SrTiO3 by Nano-Inclusion with Low Thermal Conductivity. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 3449.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wasson, C.S. System Analysis, Design, and Development; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005; ISBN 9780471728245.

An edited book

UML for SOC Design; Martin, G., Müller, W., Eds.; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2005; ISBN 9780387257440.

A chapter in an edited book

Hesthaven, J.S.; Rozza, G.; Stamm, B. The Empirical Interpolation Method. In Certified Reduced Basis Methods for Parametrized Partial Differential Equations; Rozza, G., Stamm, B., Eds.; SpringerBriefs in Mathematics; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 67–85 ISBN 9783319224695.

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. The Seashell-Inspired Material Inspiring A New Wave Of Safety Gear In Sport (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 Best Practices: Elements Critical to Successfully Reducing Unneeded RDT&E Infrastructure; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1998;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Huger Marsh, D.P. Perspectives of Disciplinary Problems and Practices in Elementary Schools. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University: Minneapolis, MN, 2012.

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

Kolomatsky, M. Where It’s Good to Have Four Legs. New York Times 2017, RE2.

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

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