How to format your references using the Regulatory Peptides citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Regulatory Peptides. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Henderson GM. Climate. Caving in to new chronologies. Science 2006;313:620–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Shaw RJ, Cantley LC. Cell biology. Ancient sensor for ancient drug. Science 2012;336:813–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sobolevsky AI, Rosconi MP, Gouaux E. X-ray structure, symmetry and mechanism of an AMPA-subtype glutamate receptor. Nature 2009;462:745–56.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Forcet C, Stein E, Pays L, Corset V, Llambi F, Tessier-Lavigne M, et al. Netrin-1-mediated axon outgrowth requires deleted in colorectal cancer-dependent MAPK activation. Nature 2002;417:443–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Quinlan J, VanderBrug J. Gender Lens Investing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Liu Z, Zhang Z, editors. Engineering Trustworthy Software Systems: First International School, SETSS 2014, Chongqing, China, September 8-13, 2014. Tutorial Lectures. vol. 9506. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Abdel-Khalek AM. Religiosity and Well-Being in a Muslim Context. In: Kim-Prieto C, editor. Religion and Spirituality Across Cultures, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014, p. 71–85.

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 Regulatory Peptides.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Seals Caught Having Sex With Penguins. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/seals-caught-having-sex-penguins/ (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. Aerospace Testing: Promise of Closer NASA/DOD Cooperation Remains Largely Unfulfilled. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mehmeti A. Intensive dramaturgical research facilitated the creation of the character Soran Saleen in “The Poetry of Pizza.” Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

McKINLEY JC Jr. Man Gets Maximum Sentence in Bus Driver’s Death. New York Times 2017:A24.

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	Regulatory Peptides
Abbreviation	Regul. Pept.
ISSN (print)	0167-0115
Scope	Biochemistry Clinical Biochemistry Endocrinology Physiology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience