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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Pharmacology 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. Hawley RS. Molecular biology. Hitting a tiny target in the dark. Science. 2011;331:870–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Shapiro RB, Ossorio PN. Research ethics. Regulation of online social network studies. Science. 2013;339:144–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kossin JP, Emanuel KA, Vecchi GA. The poleward migration of the location of tropical cyclone maximum intensity. Nature. 2014;509:349–52.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lemarchand D, Gaillardet J, Lewin E, Allègre CJ. The influence of rivers on marine boron isotopes and implications for reconstructing past ocean pH. Nature. 2000;408:951–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Anthony B, Boudnik K, Adams C, Shao B, Lee C, Sasaki K. Professional Hadoop®. Indianapolis, IN, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

1. Krishna R, Yu L, editors. Biopharmaceutics Applications in Drug Development. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Pazderski D, Szulczyński P, Kozłowski KR. Kinematic Tracking Controller for Unicycle Mobile Robot Based on Polar-like Representation and Lyapunov Analysis. In: Kozłowski KR, editor. Robot Motion and Control 2009. London: Springer; 2009. p. 45–56.

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 Pharmacology Reports.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Supernova Traces Are Showering Earth, Suggesting Multiple Explosions Nearby [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/supernova-traces-are-showering-earth-suggesting-multiple-explosions-nearby/. 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. Compensatory Education: Chapter 1 Services Provided to Private Sectarian School Students. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Sep. Report No.: HRD-87-128BR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mathew J. Examining the relationship between secondary school head teachers’ leadership and teachers’ satisfaction in Kerala, India [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2008.

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. Dobbins J. Making a Living on Airbnb. New York Times. 2017 Apr 7;RE1.

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 Pharmacology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Pharmacol. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2198-641X
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