How to format your references using the Current Therapeutic Research citation style

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

Ryan AJ. Journal club. A chemist welcomes an ingenious advance in plastics technology. Nature. 2009;458(7238):553.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anderson DL, Natland JH. Evidence for mantle plumes? Nature. 2007;450(7169):E15; discussion E16.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghosh S, Sood AK, Kumar N. Carbon nanotube flow sensors. Science. 2003;299(5609):1042-1044.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Matsuda K, Miura E, Miyazaki T, et al. Cbln1 is a ligand for an orphan glutamate receptor delta2, a bidirectional synapse organizer. Science. 2010;328(5976):363-368.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Evans AJ. Markets for Managers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Ivanović M, Thalheim B, Catania B, et al., eds. New Trends in Databases and Information Systems: ADBIS 2016 Short Papers and Workshops, BigDap, DCSA, DC, Prague, Czech Republic, August 28-31, 2016, Proceedings. Vol 637. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Jochem E. Fuel Cell Technologies. In: Jochem E, ed. Improving the Efficiency of R&D and the Market Diffusion of Energy Technologies. Physica-Verlag HD; 2009:67-104.

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 Therapeutic Research.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Weak Gravity Can Be Explained With 10 Million Billion New Particles. IFLScience. Published August 4, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/weak-gravity-can-be-explained-with-10-million-billion-new-particles/

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. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Emale JM. An Examination of How Conglomerates Impact Small-Medium Enterprises in Their Relationship. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix; 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

Robbins L. Despite ‘Sanctuary City’ Policy, Mayor Says New York Complies With U.S. Law. New York Times. June 29, 2017:A19.

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 Therapeutic Research
Abbreviation	Curr. Ther. Res. Clin. Exp.
ISSN (print)	0011-393X
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology

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