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

Segrè G. The Big Bang and the genetic code. Nature. 2000;404(6777):437.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wen L, Tang F. Computational biology: How to catch rare cell types. Nature. 2015;525(7568):197-198.

A journal article with 3 authors

McKemy DD, Neuhausser WM, Julius D. Identification of a cold receptor reveals a general role for TRP channels in thermosensation. Nature. 2002;416(6876):52-58.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chen Z, Xu Z, Sun S, et al. TGF-β1, IL-6, and TNF-α in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid: useful markers for lung cancer? Sci Rep. 2014;4:5595.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thiselton AC. 1 & 2 Thessalonians: Through the Centuries. Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Schuetze O, Coello Coello CA, Tantar AA, et al., eds. EVOLVE - A Bridge between Probability, Set Oriented Numerics, and Evolutionary Computation III. Vol 500. Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Conder K. Site-Selective Oxygen-Isotope Exchange in YBa2Cu3O7−x. In: Bussmann-Holder A, Keller H, eds. High Tc Superconductors and Related Transition Metal Oxides: Special Contributions in Honor of K. Alex Müller on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday. Springer; 2007:75-84.

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

Evans K. 13 Habits Science Shows Will Help You Fall Asleep Faster And Sleep Better. IFLScience. July 15, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/13-habits-science-shows-will-help-you-fall-asleep-faster-and-sleep-better/

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. Commercial Space Launch Insurance: Views Differ on Need for Change to Insurance Approach but Clarification Is Needed. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Breckheimer I. Mapping Habitat Quality in Conservation’s Neglected Geography. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina; 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

Marx L. When ‘The Hokey Pokey’ Just Doesn’t Cut It. New York Times. September 7, 2014:ST28.

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