How to format your references using the Current Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Science. 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

Eichenbaum, H., Neuroscience. Dedicated to memory? Science, 2010, 330, 1331–1332.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, Y. and Imlay, J. A., Cell death from antibiotics without the involvement of reactive oxygen species. Science, 2013, 339, 1210–1213.

A journal article with 3 authors

Falkovich, G., Fouxon, A., and Stepanov, M. G., Acceleration of rain initiation by cloud turbulence. Nature, 2002, 419, 151–154.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Eckle, P., Pfeiffer, A. N., Cirelli, C., et al., Attosecond ionization and tunneling delay time measurements in helium. Science, 2008, 322, 1525–1529.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bottomley, G. E., Channel Equalization for Wireless Communications John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

Cahalane, H. (ed.), Contemporary Issues in Child Welfare Practice Springer, New York, NY, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu, J. X., Ro, K., and Yeh, M. W., Jan Wolff and Israel L. Chaikoff. In Surgical Endocrinopathies: Clinical Management and the Founding Figures (eds. Pasieka, J. L., and Lee, J. A.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015, pp. 21–24.

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 Science.

Blog post

Hale, T., Russian Researchers Find A Secret Nazi-Era Arctic Weather Station. IFLScience, IFLScience, 2016, October 21.

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

Government Accountability Office, Bilingual Education: A New Look at the Research Evidence U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lummus, S., Perceptions of required leadership behaviors for nurse leaders as measured by the Leadership Practices Inventory. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 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

Pilon, M. and Mather, V., To Avoid I.O.C. Cut, a Sport Changed. New York Times, 2013, February 14, p. B13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Science
Abbreviation	Curr. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0011-3891
Scope	Multidisciplinary