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. Colman SM. Paleoclimate. A fresh look at glacial floods. Science. 2002;296:1251–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Newman DK, Kolter R. A role for excreted quinones in extracellular electron transfer. Nature. 2000;405:94–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Harris RA, Rogers J, Milosavljevic A. Human-specific changes of genome structure detected by genomic triangulation. Science. 2007;316:235–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Pierce-Shimomura JT, Faumont S, Gaston MR, Pearson BJ, Lockery SR. The homeobox gene lim-6 is required for distinct chemosensory representations in C. elegans. Nature. 2001;410:694–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cheremisinoff NP, Davletshin A. A Guide to Safe Material and Chemical Handling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Ghizzetti A, editor. Alcune questioni di analisi numerica. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Russell B, Brubaker L. Muscle Function and Ageing. In: Baessler K, Burgio KL, Norton PA, Schüssler B, Moore KH, Stanton SL, editors. Pelvic Floor Re-education: Principles and Practice. London: Springer; 2008. p. 49–61.

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. Scientists Snap Stunning Photograph Of Star Cluster [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/supermodel-galaxy/

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. Information Technology: Architecture Needed to Guide Modernization of DOD’s Financial Operations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001 May. Report No.: GAO-01-525.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Wall JD. The Effects of Acute L-Dopa on Brux-like and Masticatory Motor Patterns: EMG Phase Analysis in Rats [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2017.

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. Marx L. After the Guests Have Left. New York Times. 2014 Jun 1;ST13.

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

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