How to format your references using the Archives of Disease in Childhood citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Disease in Childhood. 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 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

Marx V. Next-generation sequencing: The genome jigsaw. Nature 2013;501:263–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shidara M, Richmond BJ. Anterior cingulate: single neuronal signals related to degree of reward expectancy. Science 2002;296:1709–11.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dunningham J, Rau A, Burnett K. From pedigree cats to fluffy-bunnies. Science 2005;307:872–5.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chai G, Dong G, Qiu J, et al. Phase transformation and intense 2.7 μm emission from Er3+ doped YF3/YOF submicron-crystals. Sci Rep 2013;3:1598.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El-Reedy MA. Construction Management for Industrial Projects. Hoboken, NJ: : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2011.

An edited book

Abo M. Rehabilitation with rTMS. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: : Springer International Publishing 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Aurnhammer M, Hanappe P, Steels L. Augmenting Navigation for Collaborative Tagging with Emergent Semantics. In: Cruz I, Decker S, Allemang D, et al., eds. The Semantic Web - ISWC 2006: 5th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2006, Athens, GA, USA, November 5-9, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: : Springer 2006. 58–71.

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 Archives of Disease in Childhood.

Blog post

Davis J. Sea Otters May Have Been Using Tools Before Modern Humans Even Existed. IFLScience. 2017.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sea-otters-may-have-been-using-tools-before-modern-humans-even-existed/ (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

Government Accountability Office. GSEs: Implications of Removing State and Local Tax Exemption. Washington, DC: : U.S. Government Printing Office 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vickovic SG. Medical marijuana and the media. 2010.

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

Stellin S. If Your Flight’s On-Time Ranking Seemed Too High, It Probably Was. New York Times. 2017;:B5.

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	Archives of Disease in Childhood
Abbreviation	Arch. Dis. Child.
ISSN (print)	0003-9888
ISSN (online)	1468-2044
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health

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