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]

Ferry G. The making of an exceptional scientist. Nature 2010;464:1268–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Doak DF, Morris WF. Demographic compensation and tipping points in climate-induced range shifts. Nature 2010;467:959–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mungall JE, Ames DE, Hanley JJ. Geochemical evidence from the Sudbury structure for crustal redistribution by large bolide impacts. Nature 2004;429:546–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wei P, Zhang J, Egan-Hafley M, Liang S, Moore DD. The nuclear receptor CAR mediates specific xenobiotic induction of drug metabolism. Nature 2000;407:920–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dormieux L, Kondo D. Micromechanics of Fracture and Damage. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Torres DF, Rea N, editors. High-Energy Emission from Pulsars and their Systems: Proceedings of the First Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gouma DJ. Diagnosis and Treatment of Major Abdominal Complications Is Multidisciplinary Work. In: Cuesta MA, Bonjer HJ, editors. Treatment of Postoperative Complications After Digestive Surgery, London: Springer; 2014, p. 19–25.

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]

Davis J. Endangered Frog May Be Developing Resistance To Deadly Fungus. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/endangered-frog-may-be-developing-resistance-to-deadly-fungus/ (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. Preparing, Documenting, and Referencing Lotus Spreadsheets. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Young W. Diamagnetism of a supersonic rotating magnetized plasma. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2012.

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]

Rubin JP. 59 Missiles Don’t Equal a Foreign Policy. New York Times 2017:SR2.

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