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. Atreya, Planetary science. Titan’s organic factory, Science. 316 (2007) 843–845.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

F. Dong, R.E. Miller, Vibrational transition moment angles in isolated biomolecules: a structural tool, Science. 298 (2002) 1227–1230.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Puliga, G. Caldarelli, S. Battiston, Credit Default Swaps networks and systemic risk, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6822.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A.C. Daley, G.E. Budd, J.-B. Caron, G.D. Edgecombe, D. Collins, The Burgess Shale anomalocaridid Hurdia and its significance for early euarthropod evolution, Science. 323 (2009) 1597–1600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Liu, X. Dong, X. Chen, X. Tong, X. Zhang, S. Xu, Fault Location and Service Restoration for Electrical Distribution Systems, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

N. Nedjah, L. de M. Mourelle, E. Alba, eds., Parallel Evolutionary Computations, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

W.P. Ceelen, S. Morris, P. Paraskeva, P. Pattyn, Surgical Trauma, Minimal Residual Disease and Locoregional Cancer Recurrence, in: W.P. Ceelen (Ed.), Peritoneal Carcinomatosis: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2007: pp. 51–69.

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, Strange Microorganism Under The Sea May Be Missing Link In Evolution, IFLScience. (2015).

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, Answers to Independence Standard Questions (Superseded by GAO-12-331G) GAO-02-870G, July 2002, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V. Mehta, Sparta in the Enlightenment, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2009.

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]

M.M. Grynbaum, Assessing The Intent In a Critique Of the Media, New York Times. (2017) A17.

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

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