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]

Johns-Krull CM. Astrophysics: Secret ingredient exposed. Nature. 2014;514:571–572.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lu Y, Conrad R. In situ stable isotope probing of methanogenic archaea in the rice rhizosphere. Science. 2005;309:1088–1090.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wang Z, Chakrabarty D, Kaplan DL. A debris disk around an isolated young neutron star. Nature. 2006;440:772–775.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Yoshimura M, Ono M, Watanabe H, et al. Feasibility of amylin imaging in pancreatic islets with β-amyloid imaging probes. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6155.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Li F-C, Yu B, Wei J-J, et al. Turbulent Drag Reduction by Surfactant Additives. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Swenson ER, Bärtsch P, editors. High Altitude: Human Adaptation to Hypoxia. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

McMillan DB. Oviducts and Oviparity. In: McMillan DB, editor. Fish Histology: Female Reproductive Systems. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007. p. 335–390.

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]

Hale T. AI Can Predict How Much Longer You Have Left To Live. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Finanzas del Consumidor: Factores que Afectan la Educacion Financiera de las Personas con Conocimientos Limitados del Ingles. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010. Report No.: GAO-10-869. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Aikens FA. An Examination of Ethical Behavior, Job Satisfaction, and Turnover Intent in Southern Ohio QSR Operations [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]

Mueller B. Black Detectives in New York Say Cronyism Cost Promotions. New York Times. 2017 Sep 21;A1.

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