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]

Stein RS. Geoscience. Tidal triggering caught in the act 2004; 305: 1248–49.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Powrie F, Maloy KJ. Immunology. Regulating the regulators 2003; 299: 1030–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hsin J-P, Sheth A, Manley JL. RNAP II CTD phosphorylated on threonine-4 is required for histone mRNA 3’ end processing 2011; 334: 683–86.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Shahbazi MN, Scialdone A, Skorupska N, Weberling A, Recher G, Zhu M, et al. Pluripotent state transitions coordinate morphogenesis in mouse and human embryos 2017; 552: 239–43.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Epperlein PW. Semiconductor Laser Engineering, Reliability and Diagnostics. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Cornelius-White JHD, Motschnig-Pitrik R, Lux M, editors. Interdisciplinary Handbook of the Person-Centered Approach: Research and Theory. New York, NY: Springer 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gordon SM, Buchwald M. The FANCC Gene and Its Products. In: Kirk SH, Ed. Molecular Mechanisms of Fanconi Anemia.; Boston, MA: Springer US 2006; pp. 36–53.

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 E. New Guinea Flatworm, one of the Worst Known Invasive Species, Found in US [homepage on the Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience, 2015. [cited 2018 Oct 30] Available from: (https://www.iflscience.com/environment/new-guinea-flatworm-one-worst-known-invasive-species-found-us/).

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. Digital Television Transition: Information on the Implementation of the Converter Box Subsidy Program and Consumer Participation in the Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sumner I. Quantum wavepacket ab initio molecular dynamics: Simulating quantum nuclear effects in complex systems. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 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

[1]

Walsh MW. Suffolk Cites Emergency In Finances 2012: A24.

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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