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. Garber K. Science careers. Translational institute unites unlikely partners at Penn. Science. 2007;317:968–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rieux-Laucat F, Casanova J-L. Immunology. Autoimmunity by haploinsufficiency. Science. 2014;345:1560–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. He Y, Michaels SD, Amasino RM. Regulation of flowering time by histone acetylation in Arabidopsis. Science. 2003;302:1751–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sahin E, Colla S, Liesa M, Moslehi J, Müller FL, Guo M, et al. Telomere dysfunction induces metabolic and mitochondrial compromise. Nature. 2011;470:359–65.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Choudhry M, Landuyt G. The Future of Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Huang T, editor. Water Pollution and Water Quality Control of Selected Chinese Reservoir Basins. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Zaidi S, Nasir M. Attitude. In: Nasir M, editor. Teaching and Learning Methods in Medicine. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 137–49.

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. Luntz S. Jade Pendant’s Inscription Reveals New Aspect To Mayan Civilization. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Cost Comparison of House of Representatives Page System Versus Regular Messenger Employees. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983 Sep. Report No.: GGD-83-108.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Rey D. Chaos, Observability and Symplectic Structure in Optimal Estimation [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 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. Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times. 2017 Jul 7;MM22.

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