How to format your references using the Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (CAN). 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

Tilgner E. Mantophasmatodea: a new insect order? Science 2002;297(5582):731; discussion 731.

A journal article with 2 authors

Watson-Capps JJ, Cech TR. Academia and industry: Companies on campus. Nature 2014;514(7522):297–298.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chuang S-T, Kuo Y-H, Su M-J. Antifibrotic effects of KS370G, a caffeamide derivative, in renal ischemia-reperfusion injured mice and renal tubular epithelial cells. Sci Rep 2014;4:5814.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Demokritov SO, Demidov VE, Dzyapko O, et al. Bose-Einstein condensation of quasi-equilibrium magnons at room temperature under pumping. Nature 2006;443(7110):430–433.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gupta SK. Modern Hydrology and Sustainable Water Development. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2010.

An edited book

Gangi A, Guth S, Guermazi A, (eds). Imaging in Percutaneous Musculoskeletal Interventions. Medical Radiology, Diagnostic Imaging. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Scovazzi T. Intangible Cultural Heritage as Defined in the 2003 UNESCO Convention. In: Cultural Heritage and Value Creation: Towards New Pathways. (Golinelli GM. ed) Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2015; pp. 105–126.

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 Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. WATCH: Live HD Streaming Of Earth From The International Space Station. IFLScience; 2014. [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Space Station: Impact of the Expanded Russian Role on Funding and Research. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wilson WC. Life Satisfaction of Air Force Civilian Male Spouses. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University: Minneapolis, MN; 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

Miranda L-M. Stephen Sondheim. New York Times 2017;M2143.

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	Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
ISSN (print)	2578-5125
ISSN (online)	2378-8763
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