How to format your references using the Acta Paediatrica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Paediatrica. 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

Moore P. Simplifying the probe set. Nature 2005; 435:238.

A journal article with 2 authors

Binder P-M, Pipes RM. Applied mathematics: how chaos forgets and remembers. Nature 2014; 510:343–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baksh MM, Jaros M, Groves JT. Detection of molecular interactions at membrane surfaces through colloid phase transitions. Nature 2004; 427:139–41.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xiao B, Sanders MJ, Underwood E, Heath R, Mayer FV, Carmena D, et al. Structure of mammalian AMPK and its regulation by ADP. Nature 2011; 472:230–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rosier JA, Martens MA, Thomas JR. Global New Drug Development. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Hanjalić K, Krol RV de, Lekić A, eds. Sustainable Energy Technologies: Options and Prospects. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008. XXIII, 333 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Okita T, van Genabith J. Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Enlarged Hypothesis Space in System Combination. In: Gelbukh A, ed. Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 13th International Conference, CICLing 2012, New Delhi, India, March 11-17, 2012, Proceedings, Part II Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 40–51. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Acta Paediatrica.

Blog post

Andrew E. Promising HIV Therapy So Effective It Could Be Used As A Vaccine [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/promising-hiv-therapy-so-effective-it-could-be-used-vaccine/

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. Metropolitan Area Acquisition (MAA) Implementation Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001 Jul. Report No.: GAO-01-958R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shaker M. Design of Front End Circuits for a Low Power Ultra Wide Band Receiver [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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

Brantley B. A ‘Torch’ Still Sears. New York Times 2017:C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Acta Paediatrica
Abbreviation	Acta Paediatr.
ISSN (print)	0803-5253
ISSN (online)	1651-2227
Scope	General Medicine Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health

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