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. Snyder SH. Obituary: Julius Axelrod (1912-2004). Nature. 2005;433:593.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Gray RD, Atkinson QD. Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin. Nature. 2003;426:435–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Martens S, Kozlov MM, McMahon HT. How synaptotagmin promotes membrane fusion. Science. 2007;316:1205–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Han H-J, Russo J, Kohwi Y, Kohwi-Shigematsu T. SATB1 reprogrammes gene expression to promote breast tumour growth and metastasis. Nature. 2008;452:187–93.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Grous A. Fracture Mechanics 1. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Chou S-Y, Trappey A, Pokojski J, Smith S, editors. Global Perspective for Competitive Enterprise, Economy and Ecology: Proceedings of the 16th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering. London: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Buizza C, Imbasciati A. La dimensione emotiva dell’attrazione sessuale. In: Ghilardi A, editor. Sentire e pensare: Emozioni e apprendimento fra mente e cervello. Milano: Springer; 2009. p. 41–4.

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. Evans K. Thieves Can Steal Your Fingerprints From Your Selfies [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/thieves-can-steal-your-fingerprints-from-your-selfies/

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: Vulnerabilities Exposed Through Covert Testing of TSA’s Passenger Screening Process. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Nov. Report No.: GAO-08-48T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Park A. Borderland beyond: Korean migrants and the creation of a modern state boundary between Korea and Russia, 1860-1937 [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2009.

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. Sisario B. Organizer Of Festival Is Released On Bail. New York Times. 2017 Jul 1;A15.

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