How to format your references using the PROTEOMICS citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for PROTEOMICS. 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]

Barbier, E.B., Economics: Account for depreciation of natural capital. Nature 2014, 515, 32–33.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Fairchild, A.L., Bayer, R., Public health. Smoke and fire over e-cigarettes. Science 2015, 347, 375–376.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sackmann, E.K., Fulton, A.L., Beebe, D.J., The present and future role of microfluidics in biomedical research. Nature 2014, 507, 181–189.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

[1]

Nystul, T.G., Goldmark, J.P., Padilla, P.A., Roth, M.B., Suspended animation in C. elegans requires the spindle checkpoint. Science 2003, 302, 1038–1041.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cooper, N., Forrest, K., Cramp, P., Essential Guide to Acute Care, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Greenberg, C.H., Collins, B.S., editors., Natural Disturbances and Historic Range of Variation: Type, Frequency, Severity, and Post-disturbance Structure in Central Hardwood Forests USA, vol. 32, Springer International Publishing, Cham 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Klein, G.H., in:, Cornelius-White JHD, Motschnig-Pitrik R, Lux M (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Applications of the Person-Centered Approach, Springer, New York, NY 2013, pp. 49–56.

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 PROTEOMICS.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton, K., Can Genetics Explain The Success Of East African Distance Runners? IFLScience 2016.

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, Social Security Administration: Update on Year 2000 and Other Key Information Technology Initiatives, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hilmey, D.G., Synthesis and Study of Heteroatomic Spirocyclic Scaffolds. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 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

[1]

Murphy, M.J.O., 139 Years Ago: American Museum of Natural History Opens Its Permanent Home. New York Times 2016, C32.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	PROTEOMICS
Abbreviation	Proteomics
ISSN (print)	1615-9853
ISSN (online)	1615-9861
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Biology