How to format your references using the Purinergic Signalling citation style

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

Trevan T (2015) Biological research: Rethink biosafety. Nature 527:155–158

A journal article with 2 authors

Mittal S, Hafezi M (2015) Materials science: Round the bend with microwaves. Nature 522:292–293

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaan HYK, Hackney DD, Kozielski F (2011) The structure of the kinesin-1 motor-tail complex reveals the mechanism of autoinhibition. Science 333:883–885

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Fang J, Liu B, Zhao Y, Zhang X (2014) Two-dimensional high efficiency thin-film silicon solar cells with a lateral light trapping architecture. Sci Rep 4:6169

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baban TM (2016) Shallow Foundations. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Conati C, Heffernan N, Mitrovic A, Verdejo MF (2015) Artificial Intelligence in Education: 17th International Conference, AIED 2015, Madrid, Spain, June 22-26, 2015. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Pekař M, Samohýl I (2014) Continuum Thermodynamics of Mixture of Linear Fluids. In: Samohýl I (ed) The Thermodynamics of Linear Fluids and Fluid Mixtures. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 143–277

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 Purinergic Signalling.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) How Cancer Doctors Use Personalised Medicine To Target Variations Unique To Each Tumour. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-cancer-doctors-use-personalised-medicine-target-variations-unique-each/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1984) The Energy Information Administration Needs To Strengthen Its Computer Systems Development Procedures. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Allen RT (2014) Exploring the Lived Experiences of Program Managers Regarding an Automated Logistics Environment. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University

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

Hollander S (2000) From Nothing, A Great Team Rises; Duluth Women’s Hockey Program Surges to Prominence in Its First Year. New York Times D1

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	Purinergic Signalling
Abbreviation	Purinergic Signal.
ISSN (print)	1573-9538
ISSN (online)	1573-9546
Scope	Cell Biology Molecular Biology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience