How to format your references using the Academic Pediatrics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Academic Pediatrics. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Retallack GJ. A 300-million-year record of atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil plant cuticles. Nature. 2001;411(6835):287-290.

A journal article with 2 authors

Piketty T, Saez E. Inequality in the long run. Science. 2014;344(6186):838-843.

A journal article with 3 authors

Harbaugh WT, Mayr U, Burghart DR. Neural responses to taxation and voluntary giving reveal motives for charitable donations. Science. 2007;316(5831):1622-1625.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Irie M, Fukaminato T, Sasaki T, Tamai N, Kawai T. Organic chemistry: a digital fluorescent molecular photoswitch. Nature. 2002;420(6917):759-760.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Howe TR. Marriages & Families in the 21st Century. Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

Beijaard D, Meijer PC, Morine-Dershimer G, Tillema H, eds. Teacher Professional Development in Changing Conditions. Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Rosner M, Fabian ID. Basal Cell Carcinoma. In: Pe’er J, Singh AD, eds. Clinical Ophthalmic Oncology: Eyelid and Conjunctival Tumors. Springer; 2014:33-42.

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 Academic Pediatrics.

Blog post

Davis J. Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Discovered In Rio de Janeiro Waterways Ahead Of Olymics. IFLScience. June 13, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/antibioticresistant-bacteria-discovered-in-rio-de-janeiro-waterways-ahead-of-olymics/

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. Telephone Communications: Controlling Cross-Subsidy Between Regulated and Competitive Services. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sanute PJ. What Power? A Mixed Methods Study of Nonformal Education Teacher Perceptions of Social Power. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University; 2012.

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

Pilon M. A Faked Death, But No Escape From the Cage. New York Times. December 29, 2013:SP6.

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	Academic Pediatrics
Abbreviation	Acad. Pediatr.
ISSN (print)	1876-2859
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health