How to format your references using the Current Opinion in Pharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Opinion in Pharmacology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Sanchez PA: Ecology. Soil fertility and hunger in Africa. Science 2002, 295:2019–2020.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oncescu V, Erickson D: High volumetric power density, non-enzymatic, glucose fuel cells. Sci Rep 2013, 3:1226.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wheeler Q, Assis L, Rieppel O: Phylogenetics: Heed the father of cladistics. Nature 2013, 496:295–296.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

de Heer WA, Poncharal P, Berger C, Gezo J, Song Z, Bettini J, Ugarte D: Liquid carbon, carbon-glass beads, and the crystallization of carbon nanotubes. Science 2005, 307:907–910.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Feldkamp FL, Whalen RC: Financial Stability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Gramelsberger G, Feichter J (Eds): Climate Change and Policy: The Calculability of Climate Change and the Challenge of Uncertainty. Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Larco N, Kelsey K, West A: Project Retrofits. In Site Design for Multifamily Housing: Creating Livable, Connected Neighborhoods. Edited by Kelsey K, West A. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics; 2014:77–85.

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 Opinion in Pharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew E: The Science And Fiction Behind Blade Runner. IFLScience 2015,

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: Close Air Support: Airborne Controllers in High-Threat Areas May Not Be Needed. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ghafoori HD: Working with Muslim children and families: A training program for child welfare social workers. 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

Brantley B: The Here and Now and the Hereafter: Getting to Know the Man in the Makeup. New York Times 2016,

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 Opinion in Pharmacology
Abbreviation	Curr. Opin. Pharmacol.
ISSN (print)	1471-4892
ISSN (online)	1471-4973
Scope	Drug Discovery Pharmacology