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. Holmes N. Immunology. A splicing switch for T cells. Science. 2008;321:646–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Cobey S, Lipsitch M. Niche and neutral effects of acquired immunity permit coexistence of pneumococcal serotypes. Science. 2012;335:1376–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hejazi V, Sobolev K, Nosonovsky M. From superhydrophobicity to icephobicity: forces and interaction analysis. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2194.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Cator LJ, Arthur BJ, Harrington LC, Hoy RR. Harmonic convergence in the love songs of the dengue vector mosquito. Science. 2009;323:1077–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sattler K. Thermische Trennverfahren. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

1. Voros N, Mukherjee A, Sklavos N, Masselos K, Huebner M, editors. VLSI 2010 Annual Symposium: Selected papers. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Seidl H, Kovács M. Interprocedural Information Flow Analysis of XML Processors. In: Dediu A-H, Martín-Vide C, Sierra-Rodríguez J-L, Truthe B, editors. Language and Automata Theory and Applications: 8th International Conference, LATA 2014, Madrid, Spain, March 10-14, 2014 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 34–61.

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. Hamilton K. Will We Ever Be Able To Bring Cryogenically Frozen Corpses Back To Life? A Cryobiologist Explains [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/will-we-ever-be-able-to-bring-cryogenically-frozen-corpses-back-to-life-a-cryobiologist-explains/

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. Survey of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (GAO-09-867SP, September 2009), an E-supplement to GAO-09-868. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Sep. Report No.: GAO-09-867SP.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Olch R. Low cost/no cost quality of life programs in non-profit theatre [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Cumming-Bruce N, Sengupta S. In Greece, China Finds a New Ally Against Criticism of Its Human Rights Record. New York Times. 2017 Jun 19;A4.

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