How to format your references using the Current Medical Research and Opinion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Medical Research and Opinion. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Kwok PY. Genomics. Genetic association by whole-genome analysis? Science. 2001;294(5547):1669–1670.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Tsai L, Barnea G. A critical period defined by axon-targeting mechanisms in the murine olfactory bulb. Science. 2014;344(6180):197–200.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kim S, Wong P, Coulombe PA. A keratin cytoskeletal protein regulates protein synthesis and epithelial cell growth. Nature. 2006;441(7091):362–365.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

McKinney JD, Höner zu Bentrup K, Muñoz-Elías EJ, et al. Persistence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in macrophages and mice requires the glyoxylate shunt enzyme isocitrate lyase. Nature. 2000;406(6797):735–738.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Keene A. Keene on the Market. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Mita M, Mita A, Rowinsky EK, editors. mTOR Inhibition for Cancer Therapy: Past, Present and Future. 1st ed. 2016. Paris: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Giorgetti A, Girgenti A, Citti P, et al. A Novel Approach for Axiomatic-Based Design for the Environment. In: Farid AM, Suh NP, editors. Axiomatic Design in Large Systems: Complex Products, Buildings and Manufacturing Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 131–148.

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 Medical Research and Opinion.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Does Global Warming Mean More Or Less Snow? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Federal Assistance Provided to Institutions of Higher Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976. Report No.: 100130. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Smith T. Outsider leadership transitions: A phenomenological study of Army Reserve General Officers [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2012.

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]

Kishkovsky S. Shostakovich Is Scaled Down After Protests From Church. New York Times. 2006 Oct 5;E2.

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 Medical Research and Opinion
Abbreviation	Curr. Med. Res. Opin.
ISSN (print)	0300-7995
ISSN (online)	1473-4877
Scope	General Medicine