How to format your references using the Current Medicine Research and Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Medicine Research and 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	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

Gurnett DA. Obituary: James A. Van Allen (1914-2006). Nature. 2006;443(7108):158.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stelter P, Ulrich HD. Control of spontaneous and damage-induced mutagenesis by SUMO and ubiquitin conjugation. Nature. 2003;425(6954):188-191.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miller SP, Lunzer M, Dean AM. Direct demonstration of an adaptive constraint. Science. 2006;314(5798):458-461.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Le Grand R, Mondloch CJ, Maurer D, Brent HP. Neuroperception. Early visual experience and face processing. Nature. 2001;410(6831):890.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Denham BE. Categorical Statistics for Communication Research. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Schiessel R, Metzger P, eds. Intersphincteric Resection for Low Rectal Tumors. Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Sinnig D, Wurdel M, Forbrig P, Chalin P, Khendek F. Practical Extensions for Task Models. In: Winckler M, Johnson H, Palanque P, eds. Task Models and Diagrams for User Interface Design: 6th International Workshop, TAMODIA 2007, Toulouse, France, November 7-9, 2007. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2007:42-55.

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 Medicine Research and Practice.

Blog post

Taub B. Why Do Dogs Sometimes Wait For Years By The Graves Of Their Owners? IFLScience. September 15, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-do-dogs-sometimes-wait-for-years-by-the-graves-of-their-owners/

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. Inquiry Into Allegations of Improprieties at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Khalili A. Spectrally Formulated User-Defined Element in Abaqus for Wave Motion Analysis and Health Monitoring of Composite Structures. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University; 2017.

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

Dynarski S. Personalized Tips From a Counselor? That’s Priceless. New York Times. February 19, 2016:BU3.

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	Current Medicine Research and Practice
Abbreviation	Curr. Med. Res. Pr.
ISSN (print)	2352-0817
Scope