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. Schlichting I. Structural biology: Photosynthetic complex in close-up. Nature. 2015;517:26–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rahman MA, Halfar J. First evidence of chitin in calcified coralline algae: new insights into the calcification process of Clathromorphum compactum. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6162.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sakakura A, Ukai A, Ishihara K. Enantioselective halocyclization of polyprenoids induced by nucleophilic phosphoramidites. Nature. 2007;445:900–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. West RA, Brown ME, Salinas SV, Bouchez AH, Roe HG. No oceans on Titan from the absence of a near-infrared specular reflection. Nature. 2005;436:670–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Münch V. Patente, Marken, Design von A bis Z. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2009.

An edited book

1. Rattani A, Roli F, Granger E, editors. Adaptive Biometric Systems: Recent Advances and Challenges. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kikuchi S. Architectural Design of a Compensation Mechanism for Long Lived Transactions. In: Madaan A, Kikuchi S, Bhalla S, editors. Databases in Networked Information Systems: 8th International Workshop, DNIS 2013, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, March 25-27, 2013 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 49–66.

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. Andrew E. Live Webcast of Tonight’s ‘Super Harvest Moon’ [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/live-webcast-tonight-s-super-harvest-moon/

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. Telecommunications: FCC Lacked Authority to Create Corporations to Administer Universal Service Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Mar. Report No.: T-RCED/OGC-98-84.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Emmerling-Baker D. A Qualitative Interpretive Phenomenological Study of K5 Teacher Perceptions of Classroom Empathy Instruction [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral 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. Gustines GG. Miles to Go Before He Sings. New York Times. 2013 Mar 10;MB2.

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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