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. Winograd IJ. The California Current, Devils Hole, and Pleistocene climate. Science. 2002;296:7 discussion 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lo M-T, Lee W-C. Detecting a weak association by testing its multiple perturbations: a data mining approach. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5081.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Arora PK, Srivastava A, Singh VP. Degradation of 4-chloro-3-nitrophenol via a novel intermediate, 4-chlororesorcinol by Pseudomonas sp. JHN. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4475.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Chen L-Q, Hou B-H, Lalonde S, Takanaga H, Hartung ML, Qu X-Q, et al. Sugar transporters for intercellular exchange and nutrition of pathogens. Nature. 2010;468:527–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Schoukens J, Pintelon R, Rolain Y. Mastering System Identification in 100 Exercises. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Mang T, editor. Encyclopedia of Lubricants and Lubrication. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Buckland ST, Rexstad EA, Marques TA, Oedekoven CS. Field Methods and Data Issues. In: Rexstad EA, Marques TA, Oedekoven CS, editors. Distance Sampling: Methods and Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 35–49.

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 Diabetes Reports.

Blog post

1. Taub B. Dark Web Drug Dealers Have Been Giving Away Their Locations With Geo-Tagged Photos. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Control of the National Science Foundation Peer Review Study. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 Mar. Report No.: HRD-77-67.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Randolph JL. A Mixed-Methods Investigation of FMS Shoulder Mobility and Reported Upper Body Injury in Collegiate Football Athletes at a Division II Midwestern University [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 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. Walsh MW. U.S. Sues UnitedHealth Over Medicare Charges. New York Times. 2017 May 20;B2.

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