How to format your references using the Current Sleep Medicine Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Sleep Medicine 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. Wang LL. Obituary. Wang Ying-lai (1907-2001). Nature. 2001;412:38.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Chen X, Yan G-Y. Semi-supervised learning for potential human microRNA-disease associations inference. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5501.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Houchmandzadeh B, Wieschaus E, Leibler S. Establishment of developmental precision and proportions in the early Drosophila embryo. Nature. 2002;415:798–802.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Deguchi S, Mukai S-A, Sakaguchi H, Nonomura Y. Non-engineered nanoparticles of C₆₀. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2094.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Fernandez-Maloigne C, Robert-Inacio F, Macaire L. Digital Color. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Badica A, Trawinski B, Nguyen NT, editors. Recent Developments in Computational Collective Intelligence. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Guyeux C, Bahi JM. A Topological Study of Chaotic Iterations Application to Hash Functions. In: Elizondo DA, Solanas A, Martinez-Balleste A, editors. Computational Intelligence for Privacy and Security. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 51–73.

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 Sleep Medicine Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. How To Make Sure You’ll Have Tall, Healthy Kids [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/look-beyond-family-tree-if-you-want-tall-healthy-kids/

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. Misuse of Federal Funds Provided for the Midwest Regional Conference on Science, Technology, and State Government. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971 May. Report No.: B-171679.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Prejean KD. An Analysis of Corporal Punishment Practices in Texas Public Schools: Race, School District Size, Academic Performance, and Policy Influences [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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. Murphy MJO. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Look Back. New York Times. 2015 Jul 31;C24.

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 Sleep Medicine Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Sleep Med. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2198-6401
Scope