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. Meibom A. Geochemistry. The rise and fall of a great idea. Science. 2008;319:418–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bianchi A, Shore D. Molecular biology. Refined view of the ends. Science. 2008;320:1301–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lemieux C, Otis C, Turmel M. Ancestral chloroplast genome in Mesostigma viride reveals an early branch of green plant evolution. Nature. 2000;403:649–52.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Keppler H, Dubrovinsky LS, Narygina O, Kantor I. Optical absorption and radiative thermal conductivity of silicate perovskite to 125 gigapascals. Science. 2008;322:1529–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lau JYF. An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Vincenti G, Bucciero A, Vaz de Carvalho C, editors. E-Learning, E-Education, and Online Training: Second International Conference, eLEOT 2015, Novedrate, Italy, September 16-18, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Filho FF. The Economic Policies and Performance of Brazil’s Leftist Government: A Critical Analysis. In: Pereira AW, Mattei L, editors. The Brazilian Economy Today: Towards a New Socio-Economic Model? London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. p. 77–87.

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 D. Should We Be Using Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitisers? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/should-we-be-using-alcoholbased-hand-sanitisers/

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. Guide for Evaluating Automated Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 Mar. Report No.: 095106.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Aldridge KN. The Impact of Improved Teachers’ Classroom Management and Cultural Responsiveness on Student Behavior [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2015.

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. Murphy MJO. Seafood With a Scenic Distraction. New York Times. 2013 Sep 1;LI8.

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