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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Gastroenterology 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. Mackman N. Triggers, targets and treatments for thrombosis. Nature. 2008;451:914–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Cheung KC, Gershenfeld N. Reversibly assembled cellular composite materials. Science. 2013;341:1219–21.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lee T-H, Bhunia S, Mehregany M. Electromechanical computing at 500 degrees C with silicon carbide. Science. 2010;329:1316–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sumbre G, Gutfreund Y, Fiorito G, Flash T, Hochner B. Control of octopus arm extension by a peripheral motor program. Science. 2001;293:1845–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kiehl AR, Mays MBC. Atlas for the Diagnosis of Tumors in the Dog and Cat. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

1. Tiwari R. Aiming Big with Small Cars: Emergence of a Lead Market in India. Herstatt C, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Roland CM, Casalini R. Reorientational Relaxation Time at the Onset of Intermolecular Cooperativity. In: Rzoska S, Drozd-Rzoska A, Mazur V, editors. Metastable Systems under Pressure. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. p. 53–61.

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 Gastroenterology Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Dubai Could Have the World’s First Fully Functional 3D-Printed Building [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/dubai-could-have-worlds-first-3d-printed-building/

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. NASA Budget: Potential Shortfalls in Funding NASA’s 5-Year Plan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Mar. Report No.: T-NSIAD-92-18.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Catt BS. The reduction of surgical errors through a development of safety culture, teamwork, and communication [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Rothenberg B. In Wawrinka, Federer Will Face a Protégé With His Own Stellar Résumé. New York Times. 2017 Jan 24;B10.

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 Gastroenterology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Gastroenterol. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1522-8037
ISSN (online)	1534-312X
Scope	General Medicine Gastroenterology