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. Odling-Smee L. Science education: a science giant moves house. Nature. 2013;496:167.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Chen D, Ma XL. Local decomposition induced by dislocation motions inside tetragonal Al(2)Cu compound: slip system-dependent dynamics. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3157.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Seoane J, Le H-V, Massagué J. Myc suppression of the p21(Cip1) Cdk inhibitor influences the outcome of the p53 response to DNA damage. Nature. 2002;419:729–34.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Charest MG, Lerner CD, Brubaker JD, Siegel DR, Myers AG. A convergent enantioselective route to structurally diverse 6-deoxytetracycline antibiotics. Science. 2005;308:395–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Atherton J, Gil F, Center for Chemical Process Safety. Incidents That Define Process Safety. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

1. Braghin F, Cheli F, Maldifassi S, Melzi S, Sabbioni E, editors. The Engineering Approach to Winter Sports. 1st ed. 2016. New York, NY: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Irani D, Balduzzi M, Balzarotti D, Kirda E, Pu C. Reverse Social Engineering Attacks in Online Social Networks. In: Holz T, Bos H, editors. Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment: 8th International Conference; DIMVA 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 7-8, 2011 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 55–74.

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 D. What Science Can Reveal About The Psychological Profiles Of Terrorists [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/what-science-can-reveal-about-the-psychological-profiles-of-terrorists/

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. Aviation Security: Federal Air Marshal Service Could Benefit from Improved Planning and Controls. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Nov. Report No.: GAO-06-203.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Belflower KE. The relationship between demographic and employment variables of job satisfaction among emergency nurses [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2012.

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 M. Bridget Kelly and Eric Strauss. New York Times. 2012 Jul 22;ST11.

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
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