How to format your references using the Current Addiction Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Addiction Reports. 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. Kuypers MMM. Microbiology. Sizing up the uncultivated majority. Science. 2007;317:1510–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Sutton PJ, Kusmartsev FV. Gravitational vortices and clump formation in Saturn’s F ring during an encounter with Prometheus. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1276.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Goldreich P, Lithwick Y, Sari R. Formation of Kuiper-belt binaries by dynamical friction and three-body encounters. Nature. 2002;420:643–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Waterhouse GIN, Wahab AK, Al-Oufi M, Jovic V, Anjum DH, Sun-Waterhouse D, et al. Hydrogen production by tuning the photonic band gap with the electronic band gap of TiO₂. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2849.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Graham AW, Kirkman NC, Paul PM. Mobile Radio Network Design in the VHF and UHF Bands. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Jiménez Catalán RM, editor. Lexical Availability in English and Spanish as a Second Language. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Chandrappa R, Das DB. Materials Recovery and Recycling. In: Das DB, editor. Solid Waste Management: Principles and Practice. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 81–115.

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 Current Addiction Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. This Microchip That Could Reduce Animal Testing has Designers Excited [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/microchip-could-reduce-animal-testing-has-designers-excited/

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. Information Technology Management: Improvements Needed in Strategic Planning, Performance Measurement, and Investment Management Governmentwide. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Mar. Report No.: GAO-04-478T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Charoenphol D. Using robust statistical methodology to evaluate the performance of project delivery systems: A case study of horizontal construction [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington 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. Kelly K. Meeting Aims to Ease U.S.-China Tensions. New York Times. 2017 Jul 18;B1.

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	Current Addiction Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Addict. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2196-2952
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