How to format your references using the Current Gastroenterology Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Gastroenterology Reports. 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. Wentrup C. Chemistry. Fleeting molecules extend their stay. Science. 2001;292:1846–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ungar PS, Sponheimer M. The diets of early hominins. Science. 2011;334:190–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kulathinal RJ, Bettencourt BR, Hartl DL. Compensated deleterious mutations in insect genomes. Science. 2004;306:1553–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Rao F, Ding K, Zhou Y, Zheng Y, Xia M, Lv S, et al. Reducing the stochasticity of crystal nucleation to enable subnanosecond memory writing. Science. 2017;358:1423–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Davey KJ. Building Winning Algorithmic Trading Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Biel A, Eek D, Gärling T, Gustafsson M, editors. New Issues and Paradigms in Research on Social Dilemmas. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Holweg M, Bicheno J. The Reverse Amplification Effect in Supply Chains. In: Pawar KS, Rogers H, Potter A, Naim M, editors. Developments in Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Past, Present and Future. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. p. 52–8.

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 Current Gastroenterology Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Retraction Of Scientific Papers For Fraud Or Bias Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg. IFLScience. 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. West Coast Ports: Better Supply Chain Information Could Improve DOT’s Freight Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Oct. Report No.: GAO-17-23.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Choubey L. Quantitative Assessment of Fgfr1 Expression in Neurons and Glia of the Developing Mouse Brain [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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

1. St. John Kelly E. One of Newest Take-at-Home Tests: I.Q. New York Times. 1997 Jan 22;B7.

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	Current Gastroenterology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Gastroenterol. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1522-8037
ISSN (online)	1534-312X
Scope	General Medicine Gastroenterology