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

Carmeliet P. Angiogenesis in life, disease and medicine. Nature 2005; 438: 932–936.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schulz C, Rehling P. Cell biology. Powering the cell cycle. Science 2014; 346: 1059–1060.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prieto MA, Brunetti G, Mack K-H. Particle accelerators in the hot spots of radio galaxy 3C 445, imaged with the VLT. Science 2002; 298: 193–195.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kumatani A, Li Y, Darmawan P, et al. On practical charge injection at the metal/organic semiconductor interface. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 1026.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wesche R. Physical Properties of High-Temperature Superconductors. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

Bhushan B, Fuchs H, Tomitori M (eds). Applied Scanning Probe Methods VIII: Scanning Probe Microscopy Techniques. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Yuan Z, Jiang H. Diffuse Optical Tomography for Brain Imaging: Theory. In: Madsen SJ (ed) Optical Methods and Instrumentation in Brain Imaging and Therapy. New York, NY: Springer, 2013, pp. 87–115.

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. Horses Have Similar Facial Expressions As Humans And Chimps. IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/horses-have-similar-facial-expressions-humans-and-chimps/ (2015, 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. Barriers to Competition in the Airline Industry. T-RCED-89-65, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 20 September 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

May LA. Teacher compensation and the academic achievement of high school students. Doctoral Dissertation, Lindenwood University, 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

Poniewozik J. Deadly, Stylish Comfort. New York Times, 18 April 2017, p. C4.

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