How to format your references using the Canadian Journal of Diabetes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Harley CDG. Climate change, keystone predation, and biodiversity loss. Science 2011;334:1124–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

MacCoss M, Baillie TA. Organic chemistry in drug discovery. Science 2004;303:1810–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Shalm LK, Adamson RBA, Steinberg AM. Squeezing and over-squeezing of triphotons. Nature 2009;457:67–70.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Silver RA, Lubke J, Sakmann B, Feldmeyer D. High-probability uniquantal transmission at excitatory synapses in barrel cortex. Science 2003;302:1981–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kühn V. Wireless Communications over MIMO Channels. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Ruben PC, editor. Voltage Gated Sodium Channels. vol. 221. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Melnikov SP, Sizov AN, Sinyanskii AA, Miley GH. Lasing Mechanisms and Kinetic Models of NPLs. In: Sinyanskii AA, Sizov AN, Miley GH, editors. Lasers with Nuclear Pumping, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 143–82.

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 Canadian Journal of Diabetes.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. Male Mice Woo Females With “Love Songs” Similar to Songbirds. IFLScience 2015.

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. Comments on H.R. 5103, Snyder letter. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Rensing RI. Developing a notebook protocol for the high school chemistry classroom. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

Feeney K. World’s Fare for Soccer Fans. New York Times 2010:NJ8.

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	Canadian Journal of Diabetes
ISSN (print)	1499-2671
Scope