How to format your references using the Regulatory Peptides citation style

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

Rodriguez J. Recruiters and industry. Rules of engagement. Nature 2004;429:486.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sekkal W, Zaoui A. Nanoscale analysis of the morphology and surface stability of calcium carbonate polymorphs. Sci Rep 2013;3:1587.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Clark DA, Mitra PP, Wang SS. Scalable architecture in mammalian brains. Nature 2001;411:189–93.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Pyzalla A, Camin B, Buslaps T, Di Michiel M, Kaminski H, Kottar A, et al. Simultaneous tomography and diffraction analysis of creep damage. Science 2005;308:92–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Heuer A. Der perfekte Tipp. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Geva S, Kamps J, Schenkel R, editors. Focused Retrieval of Content and Structure: 10th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2011, Saarbrücken, Germany, December 12-14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 7424. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Al-Shaer E, Rahman MA. Intrusion Detection Systems for AMI. In: Rahman MA, editor. Security and Resiliency Analytics for Smart Grids: Static and Dynamic Approaches, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 105–34.

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 Regulatory Peptides.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Driverless Cars Let Loose In Fake Michigan Streets. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/driverless-cars-let-loose-fake-michigan-streets/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Arthur Schoenhaut. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Heffner MD. Informing Decision-Making for Derailments Involving Hazmat: An Analysis of Phmsa Train Accident Data. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Poniewozik J. Nostalgia Goes Niche. New York Times 2017:C1.

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	Regulatory Peptides
Abbreviation	Regul. Pept.
ISSN (print)	0167-0115
Scope	Biochemistry Clinical Biochemistry Endocrinology Physiology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience