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. Seife C. NEUROPSYCHOLOGY: Language Affects Sound Perception. Science. 2000;290:2051b–2b.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hood L, Galas D. The digital code of DNA. Nature. 2003;421:444–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ahrestani FS, Hebblewhite M, Post E. The importance of observation versus process error in analyses of global ungulate populations. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3125.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Avinun-Kalish M, Heiblum M, Zarchin O, Mahalu D, Umansky V. Crossover from “mesoscopic” to “universal” phase for electron transmission in quantum dots. Nature. 2005;436:529–33.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Storhas W. Bioverfahrensentwicklung. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

1. Barker S, Ahn G-J, editors. Data and Applications Security XXI: 21st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security, Redondo Beach, CA, USA, July 8-11, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hazzan O, Dubinsky Y. Time Time Time. In: Dubinsky Y, editor. Agile Software Engineering. London: Springer; 2008. p. 1–22.

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. What Would It Look Like If Saturn Approached the Earth? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-would-it-look-if-saturn-approached-earth/

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. Airport Financing: Comparing Funding Sources With Planned Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Mar. Report No.: T-RCED-98-129.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Tomko PR. Understanding the factors affecting the influence of children on their parents’ total purchases [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 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

1. Tabarrok A, Rajagopalan S. Private Cities, Open to All. New York Times. 2015 Mar 16;A25.

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