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]

Cline JS. Geology. How to concentrate copper. Science 2003;302:2075–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Klankermayer J, Leitner W. CHEMISTRY. Love at second sight for CO₂ and H₂ in organic synthesis. Science 2015;350:629–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Copeland NG, Jenkins NA, O’Brien SJ. Genomics. Mmu 16--comparative genomic highlights. Science 2002;296:1617–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Goes JI, Thoppil PG, Gomes H do R, Fasullo JT. Warming of the Eurasian landmass is making the Arabian Sea more productive. Science 2005;308:545–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bisen PS, Debnath M, Prasad GBKS. Microbes. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Köbler U. Renormalization Group Theory: Impact on Experimental Magnetism. vol. 127. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Farkas J, Jármai K. Tubular Trusses. In: Jármai K, editor. Optimum Design of Steel Structures, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 61–107.

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. 3D Cancer Vaccine Recruits Infection-Fighting Cells. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/3d-cancer-vaccine-recruits-infection-fighting-cells/ (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. The Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program at Holliston Junior College. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Andrade NA. Environmental fate of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in agricultural soils which have received biosolids application. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.

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]

Kishkovsky S. Hermitage Museum Anniversary Plans. New York Times 2014:C3.

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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