How to format your references using the Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (CAN). 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

Komar AA. Genetics. SNPs, silent but not invisible. Science 2007;315(5811):466–467.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kuwayama H, Ishida S. Biological soliton in multicellular movement. Sci Rep 2013;3:2272.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gershenfeld N, Samouhos S, Nordman B. Engineering. Intelligent infrastructure for energy efficiency. Science 2010;327(5969):1086–1088.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Black BE, Foltz DR, Chakravarthy S, et al. Structural determinants for generating centromeric chromatin. Nature 2004;430(6999):578–582.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rim CT, Mi C. Wireless Power Transfer for Electric Vehicles and Mobile Devices. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2017.

An edited book

Stroud I. Solid Modelling and CAD Systems: How to Survive a CAD System. (Nagy H. ed). Springer: London; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Aranda-Corral GA, Borrego-Díaz J. Mereotopological Analysis of Formal Concepts in Security Ontologies. In: Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems 2010: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems (CISIS’10). (Herrero Á, Corchado E, Redondo C, et al. eds). Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2010; pp. 33–40.

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 Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. Leatherback Sea Turtles Use Mysterious ‘Compass Sense’ To Migrate Hundreds Of Miles. IFLScience; 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/leatherback-sea-turtles-use-mysterious-compass-sense-migrate-hundreds-miles/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office. Strategic Airlift: Further Efforts Can Be Taken to Extend Aircraft Service Life. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kelly LA. Nursing Surveillance in the Acute Care Setting: Latent Variable Development and Analysis. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ; 2009.

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

Murphy MJO. A Paris Changed by Turmoil, a Century Ago. New York Times 2015;C30.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
ISSN (print)	2578-5125
ISSN (online)	2378-8763
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