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

Yaalon DH. Down to earth. Nature. 2000;407(6802):301.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bayon R, Jenkins M. The business of biodiversity. Nature. 2010;466(7303):184-185.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fendorf S, Michael HA, van Geen A. Spatial and temporal variations of groundwater arsenic in South and Southeast Asia. Science. 2010;328(5982):1123-1127.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

McNeil BI, Matear RJ, Key RM, Bullister JL, Sarmiento JL. Anthropogenic CO2 uptake by the ocean based on the global chlorofluorocarbon data set. Science. 2003;299(5604):235-239.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Campbell CA, Collins M. The One-Page Project Manager for Execution. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Egyed A, Schaefer I, eds. Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: 18th International Conference, FASE 2015, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2015, London, UK, April 11-18, 2015, Proceedings. Vol 9033. Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Sande S, Sadun E. iPhone Messaging and Social Networking. In: Sadun E, Andres C, Welsh T, et al., eds. Taking Your IPhone 4 to the Max. Apress; 2010:79-95.

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

Luntz S. Sea Level Rise Could “Save” Reefs From Global Warming. IFLScience. August 17, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/sea-level-rise-could-save-reefs-from-global-warming/

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. ADP Systems: Concerns About the Acquisition Plan for DOD’s Composite Health Care System. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shenasi SY. The Roots of Music Therapy: Healing the Wounds of the Psyche. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2015.

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

MacFARQUHAR N. Chechen Links Nemtsov Killing to Charlie Hebdo Cartoons. New York Times. March 10, 2015:A4.

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