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

Meyer K (2012) Another remembered present. Science 335:415–416

A journal article with 2 authors

Bell G, Gonzalez A (2011) Adaptation and evolutionary rescue in metapopulations experiencing environmental deterioration. Science 332:1327–1330

A journal article with 3 authors

Huffard CL, Boneka F, Full RJ (2005) Underwater bipedal locomotion by octopuses in disguise. Science 307:1927

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Leyva I, Navas A, Sendiña-Nadal I, et al (2013) Explosive transitions to synchronization in networks of phase oscillators. Sci Rep 3:1281

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ziska LH, Dukes JS (2010) Weed Biology and Climate Change. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Xie X (2016) Suizhou Meteorite: Mineralogy and Shock Metamorphism. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Schumann RG, Gandorfer A (2014) Pathophysiology of Vitreo-Macular Interface. In: Girach A, Smet MD de (eds) Diseases of the Vitreo-Macular Interface. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 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 Purinergic Signalling.

Blog post

Luntz S (2017) Catastrophic Erosion Cut Britain Off From Europe Nearly Half A Million Years Ago. In: IFLScience. 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 (1979) NAVSTAR Global Positioning System--A Program With Many Uncertainties. 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

He W (2017) A Comprehensive Analysis of Fracture Initiation and Propagation in Sandstones based on Micro-Level Observation and Digital Imaging Correlation. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Greenhouse L (2006) Justices Uphold a Death Sentence Twice Overturned. New York Times A25

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