How to format your references using the Current Diabetes Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Diabetes 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. Metcalfe DB. Climate science: A sink down under. Nature. 2014;509:566–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Greenwood B, Mutabingwa T. Malaria in 2002. Nature. 2002;415:670–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Grund T, Waloszek C, Helbing D. How natural selection can create both self- and other-regarding preferences, and networked minds. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1480.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Curé C, Antunes R, Alves AC, Visser F, Kvadsheim PH, Miller PJO. Responses of male sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) to killer whale sounds: implications for anti-predator strategies. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1579.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Moorhouse M, Barry P. Bioinformatics Biocomputing and Perl. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

1. Sharp H, Hall T, editors. Agile Processes, in Software Engineering, and Extreme Programming: 17th International Conference, XP 2016, Edinburgh, UK, May 24-27, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Haddad MR, Baazaoui H, Aufaure MA, Claramunt C, Lechevallier Y, Ghezala HB. Towards an Integration of Space and Accessibility in Web Personalization. In: Carswell JD, Fotheringham AS, McArdle G, editors. Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems: 9th International Symposium, W2GIS 2009, Maynooth, Ireland, December 7-8, 2009 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 39–55.

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 Diabetes Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Is Nuclear Power Zero-Emission? No, But It Isn’t High-Emission Either [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/nuclear-power-zero-emission-no-it-isn-t-high-emission-either/

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. Aviation Security: Federal Efforts to Secure U.S.-Bound Air Cargo Are in the Early Stages and Could Be Strengthened. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Apr. Report No.: GAO-07-660.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. McClurg AD. A phenomenological study of Baby Boomer retirement— Expectations, results, and implications [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 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. Greenhouse L. Court Upholds Child Pornography Law, Despite Free Speech Concerns. New York Times. 2008 May 20;A17.

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 Diabetes Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Diab. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1534-4827
ISSN (online)	1539-0829
Scope	Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Internal Medicine