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]

Ammann AJ. US clinical-research system in need of review. Nature 2013;498:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Vaupel JW, Loichinger E. Redistributing work in aging Europe. Science 2006;312:1911–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kürner J, Frangakis AS, Baumeister W. Cryo-electron tomography reveals the cytoskeletal structure of Spiroplasma melliferum. Science 2005;307:436–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Leutgeb S, Leutgeb JK, Barnes CA, Moser EI, McNaughton BL, Moser M-B. Independent codes for spatial and episodic memory in hippocampal neuronal ensembles. Science 2005;309:619–23.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Birla R. Introduction to Tissue Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Kourkoulis SK, editor. Fracture and Failure of Natural Building Stones: Applications in the Restoration of Ancient Monuments. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Madden B. Putting It All Together. In: Madden B, editor. Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 171–6.

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]

Fang J. New Species Of Wolf Discovered In Africa. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/african-golden-jackals-are-actually-wolves/ (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. Information Technology: Architecture Needed to Guide Modernization of DOD’s Financial Operations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Encarnacion M. Does the use of clickers while incorporating small groups discussion increase student learning in the chemistry classroom. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

Dwyer J. Corruption in New York: An Unscrupulous History. New York Times 2016:A19.

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

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