How to format your references using the Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 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

[1]

Caron SJC. Eppendorf. Brains don’t play dice--or do they? Science 2013;342:574.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Awasthi A, Kuchroo VK. Immunology. The yin and yang of follicular helper T cells. Science 2009;325:953–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Colombo MG, Franzoni C, Rossi-Lamastra C. ENTREPRENEURSHIP. Cash from the crowd. Science 2015;348:1201–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Croll DA, Clark CW, Acevedo A, Tershy B, Flores S, Gedamke J, et al. Only male fin whales sing loud songs. Nature 2002;417:809.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Steland A. Financial Statistics and Mathematical Finance. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Beck-Nielsen H, editor. The Metabolic Syndrome: Pharmacology and Clinical Aspects. Vienna: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Muller M, Gras R, Appel RD, Bienvenut WV, Hochstrasser DF. Signal Traitment and Virtual Images Production (2/2). In: Bienvenut WV, editor. Acceleration and Improvement of Protein Identification by Mass Spectrometry, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005, p. 169–88.

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 Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Stem Cells From Just A Finger Prick. IFLScience 2014.

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. Tobacco Product Regulation: Most FDA Spending Funded Public Education, Regulatory Science, and Compliance and Enforcement Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mayorga J. MSW students’ perception of mental health competence. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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]

Billard M. Many Feet Shall Be Shod. New York Times 2010:E5.

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	Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Abbreviation	Diabetes Res. Clin. Pract.
ISSN (print)	0168-8227
Scope	Endocrinology General Medicine Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Internal Medicine

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