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]

Hejtmancik JF. Ophthalmology: Cataracts dissolved 2015; 523: 540–41.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Tuthill PG, Lloyd JP. A symmetric bipolar nebula around MWC 922 2007; 316: 247.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Osta MA, Christophides GK, Kafatos FC. Effects of mosquito genes on Plasmodium development 2004; 303: 2030–32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhu J, Shendure J, Mitra RD, Church GM. Single molecule profiling of alternative pre-mRNA splicing 2003; 301: 836–38.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Maidl B, Herrenknecht M, Maidl U, Wehrmeyer G. Mechanised Shield Tunnelling. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Uustalu T, editor. Mathematics of Program Construction: 8th International Conference, MPC 2006, Kuressaare, Estonia, July 3-5, 2006. Proceedings. vol. 4014. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Morganti R. Using HI Absorption to Trace Outflows from Galaxies and Feeding of AGN. In: Barbosa D, Anton S, Gurvits L, Maia D, Eds. The Square Kilometre Array: Paving the way for the new 21st century radio astronomy paradigm: Proceedings of Symposium 7 of JENAM 2010.; Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2012; pp. 31–42.

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]

Andrews R. Republican Bill Aims To “Terminate” The Department Of Education [homepage on the Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience, 2017. [cited 2018 Oct 30] Available from: (https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/republican-bill-terminate-department-education/).

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. VA Information Technology: Management Making Important Progress in Addressing Key Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Choi Y-J. Function of Commissureless and Related Genes in Drosophila Neural Development. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 2003.

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]

Vecsey G. An Event for the Elite and the Average Alike 2013: F2.

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