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

Mi B. Materials science. Graphene oxide membranes for ionic and molecular sieving. Science. 2014;343(6172):740-742.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hachet O, Ephrussi A. Splicing of oskar RNA in the nucleus is coupled to its cytoplasmic localization. Nature. 2004;428(6986):959-963.

A journal article with 3 authors

Roberts RB, Ser JR, Kocher TD. Sexual conflict resolved by invasion of a novel sex determiner in Lake Malawi cichlid fishes. Science. 2009;326(5955):998-1001.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yu W, Gius D, Onyango P, et al. Epigenetic silencing of tumour suppressor gene p15 by its antisense RNA. Nature. 2008;451(7175):202-206.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghiani G, Laporte G, Musmanno R. Introduction to Logistics Systems Planning and Control. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Prasad SK, Routray S, Khurana R, Sahni S, eds. Information Systems, Technology and Management: Third International Conference, ICISTM 2009, Ghaziabad, India, March 12-13, 2009. Proceedings. Vol 31. Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Chechev M, Koychev I. Social News Feed Recommender. In: Agre G, Hitzler P, Krisnadhi AA, Kuznetsov SO, eds. Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications: 16th International Conference, AIMSA 2014, Varna, Bulgaria, September 11-13, 2014. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing; 2014:37-46.

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

Andrew E. Animal Parenting: Mothers That Play Favorites, Why Whales Have Menopause, And Adults Who Have Sex With Infants. IFLScience. Published October 18, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/guest-blog-nature-sex-3/

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. Contractors’ Independent Research and Development Program--Issues and Alternatives. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mitchell SF. Life-Review Therapy: A Prevention Program for the Elderly Who Are Experiencing Life Transitions. A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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

Mueller B, Baker AL. Bullying Seen as Prelude to Classroom Stabbing. New York Times. September 29, 2017:A1.

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

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