How to format your references using the Current Medicine Research and Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Medicine Research and Practice. 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

Polak T. Help others--and help your career. Science. 2015;350(6257):246.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore JS, Kraft ML. Chemistry. Synchronized self-assembly. Science. 2008;320(5876):620-621.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wilson AH, Shirey SB, Carlson RW. Archaean ultra-depleted komatiites formed by hydrous melting of cratonic mantle. Nature. 2003;423(6942):858-861.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Agarwal S, Loh YH, McLoughlin EM, et al. Telomere elongation in induced pluripotent stem cells from dyskeratosis congenita patients. Nature. 2010;464(7286):292-296.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hornberg A. Handbook of Machine and Computer Vision. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2017.

An edited book

Pochiraju KV, Tandon GP, Schoeppner GA, eds. Long-Term Durability of Polymeric Matrix Composites. Springer US; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Dralus G. The Investigating of Influence of Quality Criteria Coefficients on Global Complex Models. In: Rutkowski L, Scherer R, Tadeusiewicz R, Zadeh LA, Zurada JM, eds. Artifical Intelligence and Soft Computing: 10th International Conference, ICAISC 2010, Zakopane, Poland, June 13-17, 2010, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2010:26-33.

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 Medicine Research and Practice.

Blog post

Fang J. Ancient Stone Toolmaking Evolved Multiple Times Across Continents. IFLScience.

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

Government Accountability Office. Spectrum Management: Incentives, Opportunities, and Testing Needed to Enhance Spectrum Sharing. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Oakes AC. States in Crisis: How Governments Respond to Domestic Unrest. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University; 2006.

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

Crow K. Writers Are Halted Mid-Sentence as a Y Cancels Classes. New York Times. May 13, 2001:147.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Medicine Research and Practice
Abbreviation	Curr. Med. Res. Pr.
ISSN (print)	2352-0817
Scope