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

Running SW. Climate change. Ecosystem disturbance, carbon, and climate. Science 2008; 321:652–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheetham AK, Rao CNR. Materials science. There’s room in the middle. Science 2007; 318:58–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Preis T, Moat HS, Stanley HE. Quantifying trading behavior in financial markets using Google Trends. Sci Rep 2013; 3:1684.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Horinaka M, Yoshida T, Tomosugi M, Yasuda S, Sowa Y, Sakai T. Myeloid zinc finger 1 mediates sulindac sulfide-induced upregulation of death receptor 5 of human colon cancer cells. Sci Rep 2014; 4:6000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Windom CA Sr, Gaidhani H, Fontana A. Virtualizing. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Wang C. Abstraction Refinement for Large Scale Model Checking. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Mennella JA. Alcohol Use During Lactation: Effects on the Mother-Infant Dyad. In: Watson RR, Preedy VR, Zibadi S, editors. Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2013. page 63–79.

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

Fang J. What Are These Bizarre Formations At Meteorite Fall Sites? [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-are-snow-carrots-doing-meteorite-fall-sites/

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. Award of Grant by Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ho L. Determination of Ibuprofen Isotherm Using Supercritical Fluid Chromatography. 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

Drucker J, Lipton E, Haberman M. Trump’s Family Still Benefiting From Businesses. New York Times2017; :A1.

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

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