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. Wendell S. Scientists and societies. Protecting the public investment. Nature. 2004;427:762.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Matsumoto Y, Maller JL. A centrosomal localization signal in cyclin E required for Cdk2-independent S phase entry. Science. 2004;306:885–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Plata G, Henry CS, Vitkup D. Long-term phenotypic evolution of bacteria. Nature. 2015;517:369–72.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sur B, Rogge RB, Hammond RP, Anghel VN, Katsaras J. Atomic structure holography using thermal neutrons. Nature. 2001;414:525–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Nappi E, Peskov V. Imaging Gaseous Detectors and Their Applications. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

1. Ritacco LE, Milano FE, Chao E, editors. Computer-Assisted Musculoskeletal Surgery: Thinking and Executing in 3D. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lin S, Huang Z. Comparative Design and Analyses of High-Rise Buildings. In: Huang Z, editor. Comparative Design of Structures: Concepts and Methodologies. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016. p. 201–52.

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. Scientists Enhance Creativity Through Brain Stimulation. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Indian Affairs: Key Actions Needed to Ensure Safety and Health at Indian School Facilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Mar. Report No.: GAO-16-391T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ryan HL. Normalizing happiness: The rhetoric of depression in Direct -to -Consumer advertising [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 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

1. Valerian S. For a Brown, the Comeback Trail Leads Home. New York Times. 2013 Oct 3;B17.

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
Scope