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]

Macfarlane AM. Nuclear policy. The overlooked back end of the nuclear fuel cycle. Science 2011;333:1225–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bhattacharya K, James RD. Applied physics. The material is the machine. Science 2005;307:53–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Romero R, Dey SK, Fisher SJ. Preterm labor: one syndrome, many causes. Science 2014;345:760–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Makino Y, Cao R, Svensson K, Bertilsson G, Asman M, Tanaka H, et al. Inhibitory PAS domain protein is a negative regulator of hypoxia-inducible gene expression. Nature 2001;414:550–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cruz MG, Peters GW, Shevchenko PV. Fundamental Aspects of Operational Risk and Insurance Analytics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Grosse C, Ohtsu M, editors. Acoustic Emission Testing: Basics for Research - Applications in Civil Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Aikat A, Roy TK, Bhattacharya N. Fetal Growth and Development in the First Two Trimesters. In: Bhattacharya N, Stubblefield PG, editors. Human Fetal Growth and Development: First and Second Trimesters, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 49–63.

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]

Andrew E. Is Your Red The Same As My Red? IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/your-red-same-my-red/ (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. Review of the Emergency School Assistance Program Community Grants Awarded to the Nashville Urban League by the Office of Education, HEW. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Anderson MS. Integrating Emergency Medical Services Into the Patient-Centered Medical Home. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 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]

Pilon M. Chinese Cabby’s Query Prompted an Epiphany. New York Times 2015:F6.

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