How to format your references using the Small GTPases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Small GTPases. 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

Carstensen LL. The influence of a sense of time on human development. Science 2006; 312:1913–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Padhi A, Ma L. Genetic and epidemiological insights into the emergence of peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) across Asia and Africa. Sci Rep 2014; 4:7040.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu L, Ploessl K, Kung HF. Chemistry. Expanding the scope of fluorine tags for PET imaging. Science 2013; 342:429–30.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hetzel R, Niedermann S, Tao M, Kubik PW, Ivy-Ochs S, Gao B, Strecker MR. Low slip rates and long-term preservation of geomorphic features in Central Asia. Nature 2002; 417:428–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Soprano A. Liquidity Management. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Rojszczak A. From the Act of Judging to the Sentence: The Problem of Truth Bearers from Bolzano to Tarski. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Brown JD, Ryan MD. Ribosome “Skipping”: “Stop-Carry On” or “StopGo” Translation. In: Atkins JF, Gesteland RF, editors. Recoding: Expansion of Decoding Rules Enriches Gene Expression. New York, NY: Springer; 2010. page 101–21.

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 Small GTPases.

Blog post

Andrew E. Fingerprint Analysis Could Detect Cocaine Use [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/fingerprints-could-be-used-detect-cocaine/

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. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Marjanovic SY. The Role of the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein in Regulating T Cell Programmed Cell Death Mechanisms and Implications for Autoimmunity in the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome. 2016;

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

Conte L. Scouting Report. New York Times2011; :E5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Small GTPases
Abbreviation	Small GTPases
ISSN (print)	2154-1248
ISSN (online)	2154-1256
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology