How to format your references using the Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning. 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

Guillén N. Infection biology: Nibbled to death. Nature. 2014;508(7497):462-463.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chiarugi A, Moskowitz MA. Cell biology. PARP-1--a perpetrator of apoptotic cell death? Science. 2002;297(5579):200-201.

A journal article with 3 authors

Webber BL, Le Maitre DC, Kriticos DJ. Comment on “Climatic niche shifts are rare among terrestrial plant invaders.” Science. 2012;338(6104):193; author reply 193.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Masgrau L, Roujeinikova A, Johannissen LO, et al. Atomic description of an enzyme reaction dominated by proton tunneling. Science. 2006;312(5771):237-241.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matthews C. A Practical Guide to Engineering Failure Investigation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 1998.

An edited book

Thyssen JP, Maibach HI, eds. Filaggrin: Basic Science, Epidemiology, Clinical Aspects and Management. Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Brock G. Moellendorf, Darrel. In: Chatterjee DK, ed. Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Springer Netherlands; 2011:707-709.

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 Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning.

Blog post

Luntz S. 300-Year-Old Eclipse Wind Mystery Finally Explained. IFLScience. August 25, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/300yearold-eclipse-wind-mystery-finally-explained/

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. James Webb Space Telescope: Project on Track but May Benefit from Improved Contractor Data to Better Understand Costs. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mayorga J. MSW Students’ Perception of Mental Health Competence. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Sisario B. McCartney Sues to Get Back His Songs. New York Times. January 19, 2017:B2.

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	Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning
Abbreviation	Curr. Pharm. Teach. Learn.
ISSN (print)	1877-1297
Scope	General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics Pharmacy