How to format your references using the Current Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 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. Dohlman HG. Diminishing returns. Nature. 2002;418:591.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jesson LK, Barrett SCH. Solving the puzzle of mirror-image flowers. Nature. 2002;417:707.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Huang Z, White PS, Brookhart M. Ligand exchanges and selective catalytic hydrogenation in molecular single crystals. Nature. 2010;465:598–601.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Okamura-Oho Y, Shimokawa K, Nishimura M, Takemoto S, Sato A, Furuichi T, et al. Broad integration of expression maps and co-expression networks compassing novel gene functions in the brain. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6969.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Stefanoiu D, Borne P, Popescu D, Filip FG, El Kamel A. Optimization in Engineering Sciences: Approximate and Metaheuristic Methods. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Jeschke S, Isenhardt I, Hees F, Trantow S, editors. Enabling Innovation: Innovative Capability - German and International Views. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Liu M, Zhang D, Yap P-T, Shen D. Hierarchical Ensemble of Multi-level Classifiers for Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease. In: Wang F, Shen D, Yan P, Suzuki K, editors. Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: Third International Workshop, MLMI 2012, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2012, Nice, France, October 1, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 27–35.

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 Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. What Do The Bacteria Living In Your Gut Have To Do With Your Immune System? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-do-bacteria-living-your-gut-have-do-your-immune-system/. 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. Administration of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 in the Michigan and Ohio State Departments of Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972 Aug. Report No.: 088953.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Eslava Rios J. Automatic melanoma detection in dermatological images [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Mueller B, Schweber N. Brooklyn Fire Kills 7 Children, Worst Toll in City Since 2007. New York Times. 2015 Mar 22;A1.

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 Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Phys. Med. Rehabil. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2167-4833
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