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]

Wilsdon J. We need a measured approach to metrics. Nature. 523(7559): 129 (2015).

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Berenbaum MR, Eisner T. Ecology. Bugs’ bugs. Science. 322(5898): 52–53 (2008).

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hung R-J, Pak CW, Terman JR. Direct redox regulation of F-actin assembly and disassembly by Mical. Science. 334(6063): 1710–1713 (2011).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Nittler LR, Starr RD, Weider SZ, McCoy TJ, Boynton WV, Ebel DS, et al. The major-element composition of Mercury’s surface from MESSENGER X-ray spectrometry. Science. 333(6051): 1847–1850 (2011).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Davis TB. Audel Industrial Multi-Craft Mini-Ref. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, New Jersey (2011).

An edited book

[1]

Rassias TM, Pardalos PM, Eds. Mathematics Without Boundaries: Surveys in Pure Mathematics. Springer: New York, NY (2014).

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Acharya MS, Wu W, Auer M, te Kamp L. Centrifuge Model Test of a Bamboo Crib Wall. In (Ed: Wu W). Recent Advances in Modeling Landslides and Debris Flows. Springer International Publishing: Cham pp. 49–56 (2015).

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]

Fang J. Extremely Long Solar Filament Creates a Big Frown on the Sun, Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/extremely-long-solar-filament-creates-big-frown-sun/.

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. Designing Evaluations: A Workbook. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC (1986).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Yu W. Impacts of storms and sea-level rise on coastal evolution between two capes: Onslow Bay, North Carolina, (2012).

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]

Koblin J. Never Mind the Ratings, (2017).

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
Scope