How to format your references using the Star Protocols citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Star Protocols. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Elvis, M. (2012). Let’s mine asteroids--for science and profit. Nature 485, 549.

A journal article with 2 authors

Limardo, A.J., and Worden, A.Z. (2015). Microbiology: Exclusive networks in the sea. Nature 522, 36–37.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schön, J.H., Kloc, C., and Batlogg, B. (2000). Superconductivity at 52 K in hole-doped C60. Nature 408, 549–552.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ji, Y., Zhang, Y., Gao, M., Yuan, Z., Xia, Y., Jin, C., Tao, B., Chen, C., Jia, Q., and Lin, Y. (2014). Role of microstructures on the M1-M2 phase transition in epitaxial VO2 thin films. Sci. Rep. 4, 4854.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hackshaw, A. (2010). How to Write a Grant Application (Wiley-Blackwell).

An edited book

Ahmad, P., and Prasad, M.N.V. eds. (2012). Abiotic Stress Responses in Plants: Metabolism, Productivity and Sustainability (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Bendtsen, M., and Peña, J.M. (2014). Learning Gated Bayesian Networks for Algorithmic Trading. In Probabilistic Graphical Models: 7th European Workshop, PGM 2014, Utrecht, The Netherlands, September 17-19, 2014. Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science., L. C. van der Gaag and A. J. Feelders, eds. (Springer International Publishing), pp. 49–64.

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 Star Protocols.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2017). World’s First Skyscraper Designed To Hang Suspended From An Asteroid. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/worlds-first-skyscraper-designed-to-hang-suspended-from-an-asteroid/.

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 (2003). Student Financial Aid: Monitoring Aid Greater Than Federally Defined Need Could Help Address Student Loan Indebtedness (U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bowman, K. (2017). A Close Look at the 2014 Passage of the Illinois County School Facility Sales Tax in Greene County.

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

Billard, M. (2010). For the Fierce Of Foot. New York Times, E7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Star Protocols
ISSN (online)	2666-1667
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