How to format your references using the Purinergic Signalling citation style

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

Supattapone S (2010) Biochemistry. What makes a prion infectious? Science 327:1091–1092

A journal article with 2 authors

Losick R, Sonenshein AL (2001) Molecular biology. Turning gene regulation on its head. Science 293:2018–2019

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim S, Ubel P, De Vries R (2009) Pruning the regulatory tree. Nature 457:534–535

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Takaoka Y, Goto S, Nakano T, et al (2014) Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) prevents lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced, sepsis-related severe acute lung injury in mice. Sci Rep 4:5204

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Briffaut J-P (2015) E-Enabled Operations Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Gunderson JP (2009) Robots, Reasoning, and Reification. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Polcawich RG, Pulskamp JS (2011) Additive Processes for Piezoelectric Materials: Piezoelectric MEMS. In: Ghodssi R, Lin P (eds) MEMS Materials and Processes Handbook. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 273–353

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 Purinergic Signalling.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Why Does Hodor In Game Of Thrones Only Say One Word? Neuroscience Explains. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-does-hodor-game-thrones-only-say-one-word-neuroscience-explains/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2008) Traffic Safety: Improved Reporting and Performance Measures Would Enhance Evaluation of High-Visibility Campaigns. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Haigh CV (2017) More Than Skin Deep: The Impact of Self-Esteem, Desire for Lighter Skin, and Gender on the Mental Health of University Students in Thailand. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Nir SM, Rosenberg E (2016) Recreation and Commerce Collide on City’s Crowded Waterways. New York Times 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	Purinergic Signalling
Abbreviation	Purinergic Signal.
ISSN (print)	1573-9538
ISSN (online)	1573-9546
Scope	Cell Biology Molecular Biology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience