How to format your references using the Clinical Pediatrics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical 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	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

Nogrady B. Neurobiology: life beyond the pain. Nature 2014; 515: S8-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grandi P, Palumbo GGC. Jet and accretion-disk emission untangled in 3C 273. Science 2004; 306: 998–1002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Allard P, Burton M, Muré F. Spectroscopic evidence for a lava fountain driven by previously accumulated magmatic gas. Nature 2005; 433: 407–410.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Penjor T, Mimura T, Matsumoto R, et al. Characterization of limes (Citrus aurantifolia) grown in Bhutan and Indonesia using high-throughput sequencing. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 4853.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ciana P. New Frontiers in Technical Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

Carey FA. Advanced Organic Chemistry: Part B: Reactions and Synthesis. 5th ed. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Muntwyler SD, Beyeler F, Nelson BJ. Microforce-Sensing Tools and Methodologies for Micromechanical Metrology. In: Clévy C, Rakotondrabe M, Chaillet N (eds) Signal Measurement and Estimation Techniques for Micro and Nanotechnology. New York, NY: Springer, 2011, pp. 93–131.

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 Clinical Pediatrics.

Blog post

Andrew E. What Was That Huge Flash Over Russia? IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-was-weird-flash-over-russia/ (2014, accessed 30 October 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. Head Start: A More Comprehensive Risk Management Strategy and Data Improvements Could Further Strengthen Program Oversight. GAO-08-221, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 12 February 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Morrison C. Who am I? Identity formation of children in foster care: A curriculum development. 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

Greenhouse L. Supreme Court Weighs Maine’s Tobacco Law. New York Times, 29 November 2007, p. C3.

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	Clinical Pediatrics
Abbreviation	Clin. Pediatr. (Phila.)
ISSN (print)	0009-9228
ISSN (online)	1938-2707
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health