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. Eisenstein M. Vaccines: Know your enemy. Nature. 2011;471:S8-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jacobs HO, Whitesides GM. Submicrometer patterning of charge in thin-film electrets. Science. 2001;291:1763–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Dumont S, Salmon ED, Mitchison TJ. Deformations within moving kinetochores reveal different sites of active and passive force generation. Science. 2012;337:355–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kinast J, Turlapov A, Thomas JE, Chen Q, Stajic J, Levin K. Heat capacity of a strongly interacting Fermi gas. Science. 2005;307:1296–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Pischella M, Le Ruyet D. Digital Communications 2. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

1. Muratori C, Paganini G, editors. Early Modern Philosophers and the Renaissance Legacy. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Flesca S, Furfaro F, Parisi F. Computing Card-minimal Repairs. In: Furfaro F, Parisi F, editors. Repairing and Querying Databases under Aggregate Constraints. New York, NY: Springer; 2011. p. 33–45.

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. Watch NASA’s Prototype Guidance System Land A Robotic Spacecraft At Night [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/watch-nasas-prototype-guidance-system-land-robotic-spacecraft-night/

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: Key Federal Agencies Need to Address Potentially Duplicative Investments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 Sep. Report No.: GAO-13-718.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Wilson WC. Life satisfaction of Air Force civilian male spouses [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2015.

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. Schmidt S. Family Grieves After Student Is Killed in College Town Thought to Be Safe. New York Times. 2016 Aug 30;A19.

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