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

Ferrara A. Astronomy. Radio noise from dust grains. Science. 2002;295(5555):638-639.

A journal article with 2 authors

Siomi H, Siomi MC. RNA. Phased piRNAs tackle transposons. Science. 2015;348(6236):756-757.

A journal article with 3 authors

Portmann O, Vaterlaus A, Pescia D. An inverse transition of magnetic domain patterns in ultrathin films. Nature. 2003;422(6933):701-704.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Moore JP, Klasse PJ, Dolan MJ, Ahuja SK. AIDS/HIV. A STEP into darkness or light? Science. 2008;320(5877):753-755.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El-Reedy MA. Construction Management for Industrial Projects. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Eiselt HA. Linear Programming and Its Applications. (Sandblom CL, ed.). Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Ortolani S, Giuffrida C, Crispo B. KLIMAX: Profiling Memory Write Patterns to Detect Keystroke-Harvesting Malware. In: Sommer R, Balzarotti D, Maier G, eds. Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection: 14th International Symposium, RAID 2011, Menlo Park, CA, USA, September 20-21, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2011:81-100.

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 E. New Candidate Brings us One Step Closer to an HIV Vaccine. IFLScience. June 19, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-candidate-brings-us-one-step-closer-hiv-vaccine/

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. Weather Forecasting: National Weather Service Is Planning to Improve Service and Gain Efficiency, but Impacts of Potential Changes Are Not Yet Known. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Aldridge KN. The Impact of Improved Teachers’ Classroom Management and Cultural Responsiveness on Student Behavior. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University; 2015.

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

Kelly R. Mortality Tale. New York Times. October 3, 1993:711.

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