How to format your references using the Current Pharmacology Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Pharmacology Reports. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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. Serageldin I. The rice genome. World poverty and hunger--the challenge for science. Science. 2002;296:54–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Muoio DM, Newgard CB. Diabetes: The good in fat. Nature. 2014;516:49–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Burkett V, Groat CG, Reed D. Hurricanes not the key to a sustainable coast. Science. 2007;315:1366–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Helmuth B, Harley CDG, Halpin PM, O’Donnell M, Hofmann GE, Blanchette CA. Climate change and latitudinal patterns of intertidal thermal stress. Science. 2002;298:1015–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Dinet J. Information Retrieval in Digital Environments. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Dontchev AL. Implicit Functions and Solution Mappings: A View from Variational Analysis. Rockafellar RT, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ruggeri T, Sugiyama M. RET 14-Field Theory of Polyatomic Gas and Dense Gas. In: Sugiyama M, editor. Rational Extended Thermodynamics beyond the Monatomic Gas. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 109–37.

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 Pharmacology Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Elon Musk Wants To Fix South Australia’s Energy Crisis In Just 100 Days [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/elon-musk-fix-south-australia-energy-crisis-100-days/

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. Airport and Airway Trust Fund: Issues Raised by Proposal to Replace the Airline Ticket Tax. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Dec. Report No.: RCED-97-23.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Wilson EM. Lessons Learned from the Gender Wage Gap in the Federal Workforce: Structural Changes and Temporal Flexibility are Only the First Step to Equality [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2017.

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. In Afghanistan, On the Road to Boston. New York Times. 2010 Apr 11;SP6.

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 Pharmacology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Pharmacol. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2198-641X
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