How to format your references using the Current Pharmaceutical Design citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Pharmaceutical Design (CPD). 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

[1]

Chapman T. Lab automation and robotics: Automation on the move 2003; 421: 661, 663, 665–66.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dermitzakis ET, Clark AG. Genetics. Life after GWA studies 2009; 326: 239–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Su Z, Huang W, Gu X. Comment on “Positive selection of tyrosine loss in metazoan evolution” 2011; 332: 917; author reply 917.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Tatem AJ, Guerra CA, Atkinson PM, Hay SI. Athletics: momentous sprint at the 2156 Olympics? 2004; 431: 525.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dubuisson S. Tracking with Particle Filter for High-Dimensional Observation and State Spaces. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Legay A, Bozga M, editors. Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems: 12th International Conference, FORMATS 2014, Florence, Italy, September 8-10, 2014. Proceedings. vol. 8711. Cham: Springer International Publishing 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Alpay D, Jorgensen P, Lewkowicz I. Extending Wavelet Filters: Infinite Dimensions, the Nonrational Case, and Indefinite Inner Product Spaces. In: Andrews TD, Balan R, Benedetto JJ, Czaja W, Okoudjou KA, Eds. Excursions in Harmonic Analysis, Volume 2: The February Fourier Talks at the Norbert Wiener Center.; Boston, MA: Birkhäuser 2013; pp. 69–111.

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 Pharmaceutical Design.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. Now We Can Edit Life Itself, We Need To Ask How We Should Use Such Technology [homepage on the Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience, 2016. [cited 2018 Oct 30] Available from: (https://www.iflscience.com/technology/now-we-can-edit-life-itself-we-need-to-ask-how-we-should-use-such-technology/).

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. Automation in the Workplace: Barriers, Impact on the Work Force, and the Federal Role. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Khayyat AM. Use of near field communication technology to prevent consumption and usage of expired products. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

Mackay IP. An Arraignment 1936: BOOKS20.

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 Pharmaceutical Design
Abbreviation	Curr. Pharm. Des.
ISSN (print)	1381-6128
ISSN (online)	1873-4286
Scope	Drug Discovery Pharmacology