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

Novick RP. Medicine. Combating impervious bugs. Science. 2008;319(5865):910-911.

A journal article with 2 authors

Srivastava D, Ivey KN. Potential of stem-cell-based therapies for heart disease. Nature. 2006;441(7097):1097-1099.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scarf D, Hayne H, Colombo M. Pigeons on par with primates in numerical competence. Science. 2011;334(6063):1664.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ashida H, Saito Y, Kojima C, Kobayashi K, Ogasawara N, Yokota A. A functional link between RuBisCO-like protein of Bacillus and photosynthetic RuBisCO. Science. 2003;302(5643):286-290.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ash MK. The Mary Kay Way. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Brion M. Frobenius Splitting Methods in Geometry and Representation Theory. Vol 231. (Kumar S, ed.). Birkhäuser; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Skeen J. Predator–Prey Relationships: What Humans Can Learn from Horses about Being Whole. In: Blazina C, Boyraz G, Shen-Miller D, eds. The Psychology of the Human-Animal Bond: A Resource for Clinicians and Researchers. Springer; 2011:81-106.

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

O`Callaghan J. Astronomers Spy Most Distant Known Object In Our Solar System. IFLScience. November 11, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/could-be-most-distant-object-solar-system0/

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. Air Traffic Control: Computer Capacity Shortfalls May Impair Flight Safety. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Castro Deller E. Recognizing Signs of Dementia: A Curriculum for Child Welfare Workers. 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

Greenhouse L. Just Answer the Question. New York Times. May 11, 2010:A23.

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