How to format your references using the Current Pharmaceutical Design citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Pharmaceutical Design (CPD). 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	Download the output style file
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]

Padma TV. Rivalry and red tape 2005; 436: 490–91.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Destexhe A, Contreras D. Neuronal computations with stochastic network states 2006; 314: 85–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Martignoli S, Gomez F, Stoop R. Pitch sensation involves stochastic resonance 2013; 3: 2676.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Cukierman E, Pankov R, Stevens DR, Yamada KM. Taking cell-matrix adhesions to the third dimension 2001; 294: 1708–12.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Camman C, Fiore C, Livolsi L, Querro P. Supply Chain Management and Business Performance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Lü Q. General Pontryagin-Type Stochastic Maximum Principle and Backward Stochastic Evolution Equations in Infinite Dimensions. Cham: Springer International Publishing 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Devarajan A, Shih D, Reddy ST. Inflammation, Infection, Cancer and All That…The Role of Paraoxonases. In: Camps J, Ed. Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Non-communicable Diseases - Molecular Mechanisms and Perspectives in Therapeutics.; Cham: Springer International Publishing 2014; pp. 33–41.

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 Pharmaceutical Design.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Arctic Tern Smashes Record For Longest Migration Ever By Flying 96,000 Kilometers [homepage on the Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience, 2016. [cited 2018 Oct 30] Available from: (https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/arctic-tern-smashes-record-for-longest-migration-ever-by-flying-96000-kilometers/).

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. GAO Role in the Evaluation of Federally Funded Education Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Amodeo GA. Structural and biochemical characterization of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae AMPK homolog SNF1. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia 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]

Billard M. A Personal Quest For a White Shirt 2013: E7.

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 Pharmaceutical Design
Abbreviation	Curr. Pharm. Des.
ISSN (print)	1381-6128
ISSN (online)	1873-4286
Scope	Drug Discovery Pharmacology