How to format your references using the Current Research in Translational Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Research in Translational Medicine. 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]

Comerio MC. Earthquake anniversary. Can buildings be made earthquake-safe? Science 2006;312:204–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Baell J, Walters MA. Chemistry: Chemical con artists foil drug discovery. Nature 2014;513:481–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Xin H, Liu Q, Li B. Non-contact fiber-optical trapping of motile bacteria: dynamics observation and energy estimation. Sci Rep 2014;4:6576.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Elzerman JM, Hanson R, Willems Van Beveren LH, Witkamp B, Vandersypen LMK, Kouwenhoven LP. Single-shot read-out of an individual electron spin in a quantum dot. Nature 2004;430:431–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Woolf G. Tales of the Barbarians. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Dremstrup K, Rees S, Jensen MØ, editors. 15th Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics (NBC 2011): 14-17 June 2011, Aalborg, Denmark. vol. 34. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Shen Z, Yin R, Qi J. Land Cover Changes in Northeast China from the late 1970s to 2004. In: Yin R, editor. An Integrated Assessment of China’s Ecological Restoration Programs, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009, p. 55–67.

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 Research in Translational Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. How Unregulated Hunting Almost Wiped Out Amazonian Species. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-unregulated-hunting-almost-wiped-out-amazonian-species/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Commercial Space: FAA Should Examine How to Appropriately Regulate Space Support Vehicles. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Tuinenga JM. John Corigliano’s Sonata for violin and piano: An analysis of context, structure, and style. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Kelly C. An Unorthodox Life Yields a Novelist of Promise. New York Times 2011:A27B.

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 Research in Translational Medicine
Abbreviation	Curr. Res. Transl. Med.
ISSN (print)	2452-3186
Scope	General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology General Medicine