How to format your references using the Current Obesity Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Obesity Reports. 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

1. Evans JA. Electronic publication and the narrowing of science and scholarship. Science. 2008;321:395–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Auer S, Frenkel D. Suppression of crystal nucleation in polydisperse colloids due to increase of the surface free energy. Nature. 2001;413:711–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Zhao J, Liu Q, Wang X. Competitive dynamics on complex networks. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5858.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Beck RD, Maroni P, Papageorgopoulos DC, Dang TT, Schmid MP, Rizzo TR. Vibrational mode-specific reaction of methane on a nickel surface. Science. 2003;302:98–100.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Rowlinson M. A Practical Guide to the NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

1. Gavrilova ML, Tan CJK, editors. Transactions on Computational Science XXVII. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Paoli L, Donati A. Distribution Chains and Market Relationships. In: Donati A, editor. The Sports Doping Market: Understanding Supply and Demand, and the Challenges of Their Control. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 85–106.

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 Obesity Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. New Rare Particle Decay Spotted [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/new-rare-particle-decay-spotted/

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. Financial Reporting: NASA Can Improve Compliance With GAO Standards and Treasury Requirements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Feb. Report No.: AFMD-88-21.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Graham HH. Leadership as co-influencing: A heuristic narrative study of dynamic co-emergence within the leadership relationship [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2010.

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. Greenhouse L. Precedents Begin Falling for Roberts Court. New York Times. 2007 Jun 21;A21.

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 Obesity Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Obes. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2162-4968
Scope