How to format your references using the Canadian Journal of Diabetes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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]

Solow RM. Retrospective. Paul A. Samuelson (1915-2009). Science 2010;327:282.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Richter JD, Sonenberg N. Regulation of cap-dependent translation by eIF4E inhibitory proteins. Nature 2005;433:477–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bannani A, Bobisch C, Möller R. Ballistic electron microscopy of individual molecules. Science 2007;315:1824–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Knoll AH, Walter MR, Narbonne GM, Christie-Blick N. Geology. A new period for the geologic time scale. Science 2004;305:621–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Klöpffer W. Verhalten und Abbau von Umweltchemikalien. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Xu KS, Reitter D, Lee D, Osgood N, editors. Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling: 9th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2016, Washington, DC, USA, June 28 - July 1, 2016, Proceedings. vol. 9708. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Husmann M, Nebeling M, Norrie MC. MultiMasher: A Visual Tool for Multi-device Mashups. In: Sheng QZ, Kjeldskov J, editors. Current Trends in Web Engineering: ICWE 2013 International Workshops ComposableWeb, QWE, MDWE, DMSSW, EMotions, CSE, SSN, and PhD Symposium, Aalborg, Denmark, July 8-12, 2013. Revised Selected Papers, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013, p. 27–38.

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 Canadian Journal of Diabetes.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. Electrical Shocks To Your Brain Could Boost Your Memory. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/electrical-shocks-your-brain-could-boost-your-memory/ (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. International Space Station: Challenges to Increased Utilization May Affect Return on Investment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Miller MW. The Mediterranean Ethiopian: Intellectual discourse and the fixity of myth in classical antiquity. 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]

Wagner J. Lugo, Paying No Mind to His Elbow, Earns Dividends. New York Times 2017:D5.

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	Canadian Journal of Diabetes
ISSN (print)	1499-2671
Scope