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 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]

E.A. Carter, Challenges in modeling materials properties without experimental input, Science 321 (2008) 800–803.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Li, H. Clevers, Coexistence of quiescent and active adult stem cells in mammals, Science 327 (2010) 542–545.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T.J. Kippenberg, R. Holzwarth, S.A. Diddams, Microresonator-based optical frequency combs, Science 332 (2011) 555–559.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Ichiki, K. Takahashi, H. Ohno, H. Hanayama, N. Sugiyama, Cosmological magnetic field: a fossil of density perturbations in the early universe, Science 311 (2006) 827–829.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

F. Lagraña, E-mail and Behavioral Changes, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

P.R. Barach, J.P. Jacobs, S.E. Lipshultz, P.C. Laussen, eds., Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care: Volume 2: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Springer, London, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V.M.K. Yanamandram, J.H. Panchal, Evaluating the Level of Openness in Open Source Hardware, in: D. Schaefer (Ed.), Product Development in the Socio-Sphere: Game Changing Paradigms for 21st Century Breakthrough Product Development and Innovation, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 99–120.

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]

R. Andrews, Incoming Secretary Of Energy Rick Perry Has No Idea What The Job Actually Is, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/incoming-secretary-energy-rick-perry-no-idea-what-job-is/ (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, Airport Capacity: Synopses of Major Studies, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. Janairo, Recovering Together: A Psychosocial Support Group for Young Adults with Schizophrenia and the People in Their Lives: A Grant Proposal, 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]

S. Hollander, From Nothing, A Great Team Rises; Duluth Women’s Hockey Program Surges to Prominence in Its First Year, New York Times (2000) 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	Translational Proteomics
Abbreviation	Transl. Proteom.
ISSN (print)	2212-9626
Scope	Biochemistry