How to format your references using the Proteomes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Proteomes. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Winker, K. Migration and Speciation. Nature 2000, 404, 36.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sipp, D.; Turner, L. Stem Cells. U.S. Regulation of Stem Cells as Medical Products. Science 2012, 338, 1296–1297.

A journal article with 3 authors

Murray, B.J.; Knopf, D.A.; Bertram, A.K. The Formation of Cubic Ice under Conditions Relevant to Earth’s Atmosphere. Nature 2005, 434, 202–205.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Parteli, E.J.R.; Schmidt, J.; Blümel, C.; Wirth, K.-E.; Peukert, W.; Pöschel, T. Attractive Particle Interaction Forces and Packing Density of Fine Glass Powders. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6227.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schulze, V. Modern Mechanical Surface Treatment; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG, 2005; ISBN 9783527607815.

An edited book

Handbook of Pediatric Surgery; Sinha, C.K., Davenport, M., Eds.; Springer: London, 2010; ISBN 9781848821316.

A chapter in an edited book

Gupta, S.; Garg, M.L. Diversity Maintenance Perspective: An Analysis of Exploratory Power and Function Optimization in the Context of Adaptive Genetic Algorithms. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS 2012), December 28-30, 2012; Babu, B.V., Nagar, A., Deep, K., Pant, M., Bansal, J.C., Ray, K., Gupta, U., Eds.; Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Springer India: New Delhi, 2014; pp. 31–38 ISBN 9788132216018.

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 Proteomes.

Blog post

Luntz, S. Icelandic Eruption Begins - Maybe Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/icelandic-eruption-begins-maybe/ (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Offshoring in Six Human Services Programs: Offshoring Occurs in Most States, Primarily in Customer Service and Software Development; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2006;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schutt, R. Topics in Model-Based Population Inference. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University: New York, NY, 2010.

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

Brantley, B. The Devil Went Down to Chelsea. New York Times 2016, C5.

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	Proteomes
Abbreviation	Proteomes
ISSN (online)	2227-7382
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