How to format your references using the Current Alzheimer Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Alzheimer Research (CAR). 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]

Ohlsson R. Genetics. Widespread monoallelic expression. Science. 318(5853): 1077–1078 (2007).

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sontheimer EJ, Carthew RW. Molecular biology. Argonaute journeys into the heart of RISC. Science. 305(5689): 1409–1410 (2004).

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kim D, Son S-W, Jeong H. Large-scale quantitative analysis of painting arts. Sci Rep. 4: 7370 (2014).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Clay NK, Adio AM, Denoux C, Jander G, Ausubel FM. Glucosinolate metabolites required for an Arabidopsis innate immune response. Science. 323(5910): 95–101 (2009).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Segura J, Hawkins CF. CMOS Electronics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ (2005).

An edited book

[1]

Osipov E, Kassler A, Bohnert TM, Masip-Bruin X, Eds. Wired/Wireless Internet Communications: 8th International Conference, WWIC 2010, Luleå, Sweden, June 1-3, 2010. Proceedings. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg (2010).

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Aerts R, Cornelissen JHC, Dorrepaal E. Plant performance in a warmer world: general responses of plants from cold, northern biomes and the importance of winter and spring events. In (Eds: Rozema J, Aerts R, and Cornelissen H). Plants and Climate Change. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht pp. 65–78 (2006).

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 Alzheimer Research.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Researchers Reveal Smallest, Fastest Nanomotor Yet, Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/researchers-reveal-smallest-fastest-nanomotor-yet/.

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. Requirements for Recurring Reports to the Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC (1980).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Dovale MJ. Postwar japan’s hybrid modernity of in-betweenness: Historical, literary, and social perspectives, (2013).

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 C. Maybe Animals Just Need Quality Time With Friends, (2013).

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 Alzheimer Research
ISSN (print)	1567-2050
ISSN (online)	1875-5828
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