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

Seaford C. Policy: time to legislate for the good life. Nature 2011; 477: 532–533.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yelenik SG, D’Antonio CM. Self-reinforcing impacts of plant invasions change over time. Nature 2013; 503: 517–520.

A journal article with 3 authors

Umemoto K, Wentzcovitch RM, Allen PB. Dissociation of MgSiO3 in the cores of gas giants and terrestrial exoplanets. Science 2006; 311: 983–986.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nefedov IS, Valagiannopoulos CA, Hashemi SM, et al. Total absorption in asymmetric hyperbolic media. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 2662.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Waye JD, Aisenberg J, Rubin PH. Practical Colonoscopy. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2013.

An edited book

Boukas EK, Malhamé RP (eds). Analysis, Control and Optimization of Complex Dynamic Systems. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Zalaudek I, Scope A, Argenziano G, et al. The Dual Pathway of Nevogenesis. In: Marghoob AA (ed) Nevogenesis: Mechanisms and Clinical Implications of Nevus Development. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, pp. 49–57.

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

Hale T. Rare Marine Fossils Discovered In World War I Trenches. IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rare-marine-fossils-discovered-in-world-war-i-trenches/ (2017, 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. Information Systems: Agencies Overlook Security Controls During Development. IMTEC-88-11, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 31 May 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chan K. Planned experiences compared to performance standards for entry-level dietetic interns. 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

Gregory P. This Close to a Killer. New York Times, 7 November 2013, p. MM36.

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