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Proceedings of the Royal Society B Citation Generator
Generate references in Proceedings of the Royal Society B from a DOI or link in seconds. CitApp renders this style with citeproc, the same engine as Zotero and Mendeley, so every comma matches the spec. Free for students, no sign-up to try.
What a Proceedings of the Royal Society B reference looks like
Proceedings of the Royal Society B is a numeric style: sources are cited with a bracketed or superscript number in the order they first appear, and the reference list is numbered to match.
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Journal article
1. Babonis LS, Martindale MQ. 2022 A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS 119, e2113701119. (doi:10.1073/pnas.2113701119)
Book
1. Kuhn TS. 1970 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press.
Web page
1. IPCC. 2021 Climate change 2021: the physical science basis. See https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/ (accessed on 15 July 2026).
Journal article with 26 authors
1. Harris CR et al. 2020 Array programming with NumPy. Nature 585, 357–362. (doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B at a glance
Read from the style file and checked against the examples above.
- Used mainly in biology.
- In the text, the first source is cited as [1].
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names only the first author and shortens the rest.
- First names are shortened to initials.
- DOIs are printed with a "doi:" prefix.
- Web pages include the date you accessed them.
- The reference list is numbered in the order sources are first cited.
- The style file was last updated in March 2017.
The guide this style follows: royalsociety.org
How Proceedings of the Royal Society B compares with CSE Manual: Scientific Style and Format 9th edition (citation-sequence)
Where Proceedings of the Royal Society B differs:
- DOIs are printed with a "doi:" prefix.
- In the text, the first source is cited as [1].
The same journal article in CSE Manual: Scientific Style and Format 9th edition (citation-sequence)
1. Babonis LS, Martindale MQ. A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS. 2022;119(19):e2113701119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113701119
Frequently asked questions
How many authors does Proceedings of the Royal Society B list?
For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names only the first author and shortens the rest.
How does Proceedings of the Royal Society B handle DOIs and web pages?
DOIs are printed with a "doi:" prefix. Web pages include the date you accessed them.
How is the reference list ordered in Proceedings of the Royal Society B?
The reference list is numbered in the order sources are first cited.
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