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]

Redfield S. Astronomy. Gathering interstellar gas. Science 2012;336:1243–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kirwan ML, Mudd SM. Response of salt-marsh carbon accumulation to climate change. Nature 2012;489:550–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Butterworth B, Varma S, Laurillard D. Dyscalculia: from brain to education. Science 2011;332:1049–53.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Fyfe JC, von Salzen K, Gillett NP, Arora VK, Flato GM, McConnell JR. One hundred years of Arctic surface temperature variation due to anthropogenic influence. Sci Rep 2013;3:2645.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Nathanail CP, Bardos RP. Reclamation of Contaminated Land. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Muralikrishnan B. Computational Surface and Roundness Metrology. London: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gurin VS. Small Metal Clusters: AB Initio Calculated Bare Clusters and Models Within Fullerene Cages. In: Buzaneva E, Scharff P, editors. Frontiers of Multifunctional Integrated Nanosystems, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005, p. 31–8.

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]

Andrew E. What Was This Strange Object Over California? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/was-there-really-ufo-over-southern-california/ (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. Analysis of Replacing Existing DOA Computer System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Valdez K. Taking a closer look at the mental health services act of 2004: A policy analysis. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

Herrman J. Platform Companies Are Becoming More Powerful — but What Exactly Do They Want? New York Times 2017:MM16.

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

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