How to format your references using the Translational Proteomics citation style

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

[1]

S.R. Reitz, Ecology. Invasion of the whiteflies, Science 318 (2007) 1733–1734.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Z. Shao, S.M. Haile, A high-performance cathode for the next generation of solid-oxide fuel cells, Nature 431 (2004) 170–173.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H.A. Roditi, N.S. Fisher, S.A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy, Uptake of dissolved organic carbon and trace elements by zebra mussels, Nature 407 (2000) 78–80.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B.J. Peterson, J. McClelland, R. Curry, R.M. Holmes, J.E. Walsh, K. Aagaard, Trajectory shifts in the Arctic and subarctic freshwater cycle, Science 313 (2006) 1061–1066.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K.G. Liphard, Labormanagement, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

E. Martinelli, ed., Teoria delle funzioni di più variabili complesse e delle funzioni automorfe, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ö.B. Bodvarsson, H. Van den Berg, The Effects of Immigration on the Destination Economy: The Theory, in: H. Van den Berg (Ed.), The Economics of Immigration: Theory and Policy, Springer, New York, NY, 2013: pp. 109–134.

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 Translational Proteomics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Six Easy Ways To Tell If That Viral Story Is A Hoax, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/six-easy-ways-tell-if-viral-story-hoax/ (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, Surface Transportation: Many Factors Affect Investment Decisions, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.L. Maddox, Secondary Structure Analysis of the C-Terminus of Gα-Interacting Vesicle Associated Protein Using Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

G. Vecsey, A Love Story Affirmed Life In Time of War, New York Times (2011) SP6.

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	Translational Proteomics
Abbreviation	Transl. Proteom.
ISSN (print)	2212-9626
Scope	Biochemistry