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]

Kaplan, K., Personnel dilemma. Nature 2009, 458, 372–373.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pohrt, R., Popov, V.L., Contact stiffness of randomly rough surfaces. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 3293.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Soares, L., Parisi, M., Bonini, N.M., Axon injury and regeneration in the adult Drosophila. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6199.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

[1]

Hu, K., Carroll, J., Fedorovich, S., Rickman, C., et al., Vesicular restriction of synaptobrevin suggests a role for calcium in membrane fusion. Nature 2002, 415, 646–650.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Pai MD FACC FRCP Edin, R.G., Varadarajan MD FACC, P., Echocardiography Board Review, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Chamoin, L., Díez, P., editors., Verifying Calculations - Forty Years On: An Overview of Classical Verification Techniques for FEM Simulations, Springer International Publishing, Cham 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Fu, Y., Xiang, R., Zhang, M., Liu, Y., Ma, S., in:, Ng HT, Leong M-K, Kan M-Y, Ji D (Eds.), Information Retrieval Technology: Third Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2006, Singapore, October 16-18, 2006. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2006, pp. 43–53.

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]

Andrew, E., Video Describes Process of Bagging and Tagging Sharks. IFLScience 2014.

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, Aviation Security: DHS Has Taken Steps to Enhance International Aviation Security and Facilitate Compliance with International Standards, but Challenges Remain, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Chlarson-Varner, G., Falls among Older Adults 65 Years and Older. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

Vecsey, G., Football’s Absolute Power Corrupts Colleges Absolutely. New York Times 2011, SP10.

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