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]

Gabrieli JDE. Dyslexia: a new synergy between education and cognitive neuroscience. Science. 325(5938): 280–283 (2009).

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lodish H, Fedoroff N. Retrospective. Norton Zinder (1928-2012). Science. 335(6074): 1316 (2012).

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Azzam NA, Hallenbeck JM, Kachar B. Membrane changes during hibernation. Nature. 407(6802): 317–318 (2000).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Nagahara N, Nagano M, Ito T, Shimamura K, Akimoto T, Suzuki H. Antioxidant enzyme, 3-mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase-knockout mice exhibit increased anxiety-like behaviors: a model for human mercaptolactate-cysteine disulfiduria. Sci Rep. 3: 1986 (2013).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Akers RM. Lactation and the Mammary Gland. Blackwell Publishing Company: Ames, Iowa (2016).

An edited book

[1]

Soille P, Pesaresi M, Ouzounis GK, Eds. Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Image and Signal Processing: 10th International Symposium, ISMM 2011, Verbania-Intra, Italy, July 6-8, 2011. Proceedings. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg (2011).

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Krishnaraj V, Zitoune R, Davim JP. Effects of Drill Points While Drilling at High Spindle Speed. In (Eds: Zitoune R and Davim JP). Drilling of Polymer-Matrix Composites. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg pp. 55–65 (2013).

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. Eight Hours Is Enough – More Sleep Could Lead To An Early Grave, Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/eight-hours-enough-more-sleep-could-lead-early-grave/.

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. Examination into the Increase in Cost of the Lunar-Roving Vehicles Being Manufactured by the Boeing Company. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC (1971).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Shah RA. Who am I? A biracial and interfaith woman’s perspective: A personal narrative, (2010).

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]

Shinn IE. TIE-IN, (1949).

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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