How to format your references using the Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning. 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

Ashcroft FM. From molecule to malady. Nature. 2006;440(7083):440-447.

A journal article with 2 authors

Forget AL, Kowalczykowski SC. Single-molecule imaging of DNA pairing by RecA reveals a three-dimensional homology search. Nature. 2012;482(7385):423-427.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang JW, Zhuang X, Rabczuk T. Orientation dependent thermal conductance in single-layer MoS2. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2209.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fiorelli LE, Ezcurra MD, Hechenleitner EM, et al. The oldest known communal latrines provide evidence of gregarism in Triassic megaherbivores. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3348.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Montgomery GE, Schuch HC. GIS Data Conversion Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

Yu X. Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms. Vol 0. (Gen M, ed.). Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Henmi K, Hattori M. Parallel Learning for Combined Knowledge Acquisition Model. In: Hirose A, Ozawa S, Doya K, Ikeda K, Lee M, Liu D, eds. Neural Information Processing: 23rd International Conference, ICONIP 2016, Kyoto, Japan, October 16–21, 2016, Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing; 2016:32-39.

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 Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning.

Blog post

Andrew D. One In Five Tattoo Inks In Australia Contain Carcinogenic Chemicals. IFLScience.

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. Inadequacies in Data Processing Planning in the Department of Commerce. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Flores AT. Children, Incarcerated Mothers and the Child Welfare System: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Walsh MW, Yaccino S. In Embattled Detroit, No Talk of Sharing Pain Between Retirees and Bondholders. New York Times. June 18, 2013:B1.

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	Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning
Abbreviation	Curr. Pharm. Teach. Learn.
ISSN (print)	1877-1297
Scope	General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics Pharmacy