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

Standfuss J. Structural biology. Viral chemokine mimicry. Science. 2015;347(6226):1071-1072.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu JQ, Pollard TD. Counting cytokinesis proteins globally and locally in fission yeast. Science. 2005;310(5746):310-314.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schneider DM, Nelson A, Mooney R. A synaptic and circuit basis for corollary discharge in the auditory cortex. Nature. 2014;513(7517):189-194.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dorner M, Horwitz JA, Robbins JB, et al. A genetically humanized mouse model for hepatitis C virus infection. Nature. 2011;474(7350):208-211.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chandru V, Hooker J. Optimization Methods for Logical Inference. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1999.

An edited book

Miyano S, Mesirov J, Kasif S, Istrail S, Pevzner PA, Waterman M, eds. Research in Computational Molecular Biology: 9th Annual International Conference, RECOMB 2005, Cambridge, MA, USA, May 14-18, 2005. Proceedings. Vol 3500. Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Huchet JF. From Dirigisme to Realism: Chinese Industrial Policy in the Era of Globalisation. In: Richet X, Delteil V, Dieuaide P, eds. Strategies of Multinational Corporations and Social Regulations: European and Asian Perspectives. Springer; 2014:57-76.

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

Andrews R. Scientists Turn Harmful Algal Blooms Into High-Capacity Battery Components. IFLScience. October 13, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-turn-harmful-algal-blooms-high-capacity-battery-components/

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. Meeting the Aging Aircraft Challenge: Status and Opportunities. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Plaza JL. The Latina/o Migrant College Student Experience. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Fausset R, Robles F, Eligon J. Online Footprint Builds Portrait of Gunman’s Life. New York Times. July 18, 2016:A1.

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