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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Obesity 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. Wright GD. Biochemistry. A new target for antibiotic development. Science. 2007;315:1373–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Fan QR, Hendrickson WA. Structure of human follicle-stimulating hormone in complex with its receptor. Nature. 2005;433:269–77.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Galloway KE, Franco E, Smolke CD. Dynamically reshaping signaling networks to program cell fate via genetic controllers. Science. 2013;341:1235005.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Baek SH, Park J, Kim DM, Aksyuk VA, Das RR, Bu SD, et al. Giant piezoelectricity on Si for hyperactive MEMS. Science. 2011;334:958–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Barron EN. Game Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. García-Tejero IF. Water and Sustainable Agriculture. Durán-Zuazo VH, Muriel-Fernández JL, Rodríguez-Pleguezuelo CR, editors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Welfens PJJ, Perret JK, Irawan T, Yushkova E. The Methodology of the EIIW-vita Indicator. In: Perret JK, Irawan T, Yushkova E, editors. Towards Global Sustainability: Issues, New Indicators and Economic Policy. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 57–75.

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 Obesity Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Mutations of Cancer ‘Stem Cells’ Tracked For The First Time [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mutations-cancer-‘stem-cells’-tracked-first-time/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Domestic Aviation: Effects of Changes in How Airline Tickets Are Sold. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Jul. Report No.: RCED-99-221.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gittens BE. Perceptions of the applicability of transformational leadership behavior to the leader role of academic department chairs: A study of selected universities in Virginia [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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. Saslow L. College Where $5 Million Makes a Difference. New York Times. 2008 Mar 9;LI2.

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 Obesity Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Obes. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2162-4968
Scope