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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Epidemiology 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. Seife C. NEUROPSYCHOLOGY: Language Affects Sound Perception. Science. 2000;290:2051b–2b.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Zhou S, Bongiorno A. Origin of the chemical and kinetic stability of graphene oxide. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2484.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Duarte CM, Marbá N, Holmer M. Ecology. Rapid domestication of marine species. Science. 2007;316:382–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Nicodeme E, Jeffrey KL, Schaefer U, Beinke S, Dewell S, Chung C-W, et al. Suppression of inflammation by a synthetic histone mimic. Nature. 2010;468:1119–23.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Adamowicz Z, Zbierski P. Logic of Mathematics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1997.

An edited book

1. Kim R. Mathematics Teaching and Learning: South Korean Elementary Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching. Albert LR, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Angioni E, Cabiddu F. Corporate Customership: The Core Components of the Relationship Between Firm and Customer. In: Caporarello L, Di Martino B, Martinez M, editors. Smart Organizations and Smart Artifacts: Fostering Interaction Between People, Technologies and Processes. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 29–35.

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 Epidemiology Reports.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. CERN Just Released The First Results From Their Latest Experiment [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/first-results-latest-cern-experiment/

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. Support for Development of Electronics and Materials Technologies by the Governments of the United States, Japan, West Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985 Sep. Report No.: RCED-85-63.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Cervantes I. Flexural retrofitting of reinforced concrete structures using Green Natural Fiber Reinforced Polymer plates [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Shear MD, Haberman M. In Interview, Bannon Contradicts Trump on North Korea, and Lashes Out at Rivals. New York Times. 2017 Aug 17;A18.

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 Epidemiology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Epidemiol. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2196-2995
Scope