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]

Kullerud L. Sustainability: A green Arctic 2011; 478: 179–80.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Arnold K, Zuberbühler K. Language evolution: semantic combinations in primate calls 2006; 441: 303.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Teufel R, Friedrich T, Fuchs G. An oxygenase that forms and deoxygenates toxic epoxide 2012; 483: 359–62.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Du S, Lin K, Malladi SK, Lu Y, Sun S, Xu Q, et al. Plasma nitriding induced growth of Pt-nanowire arrays as high performance electrocatalysts for fuel cells 2014; 4: 6439.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

McCrary SA. Mastering Financial Accounting Essentials. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Huang Y, Kornhuber R, Widlund O, Xu J, editors. Domain Decomposition Methods in Science and Engineering XIX. vol. 78. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zhang G, Fischer-Hübner S. Timing Attacks on PIN Input in VoIP Networks (Short Paper). In: Holz T, Bos H, Eds. Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment: 8th International Conference; DIMVA 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 7-8, 2011. Proceedings.; Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2011; pp. 75–84.

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]

Davis J. US Military’s “Self-steering” Bullets Can Hit A Moving Target [homepage on the Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience, 2015. [cited 2018 Oct 30] Available from: (https://www.iflscience.com/technology/us-militarys-self-steering-bullets-can-hit-moving-target/).

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. Developing and Using Questionnaires. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

McClain R. The role of spirituality/religiosity in the lives of people who are hearing impaired. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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]

Shear MD. How White House Officials Explained That 18-Day Wait 2017: A20.

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

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