How to format your references using the Current Pediatrics Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Pediatrics Reports. 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

1. Gershon D. Proteomics technologies: probing the proteome. Nature. 2003;424:581–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Williams LE, Bargh JA. Experiencing physical warmth promotes interpersonal warmth. Science. 2008;322:606–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lee S, Bluemle MJ, Bates FS. Discovery of a Frank-Kasper sigma phase in sphere-forming block copolymer melts. Science. 2010;330:349–53.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Alexander CMO, Grossman JN, Ebel DS, Ciesla FJ. The formation conditions of chondrules and chondrites. Science. 2008;320:1617–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Unmehopa M, Vemuri K, Bennett A. Parlay/OSA. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Goldstein DJ, editor. The Management of Eating Disorders and Obesity. Second Edition. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Mateo Pla MA, Lemus-Zúñiga LG, Montañana J-M, Pons J, Garza AA. A Review of Mobile Apps for Improving Quality of Life of Asthmatic and People with Allergies. In: Chen Y-W, Torro C, Tanaka S, Howlett RJ, C. Jain L, editors. Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 51–64.

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 Current Pediatrics Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Could Yeast Be The New Hero Of Biomedical Research? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/could-yeast-be-new-hero-biomedical-research/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. NOAA Aircraft: Aging Fleet and Future Challenges Underscore the Need for a Capital Asset Plan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Jul. Report No.: GAO-14-566.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Miller T. A qualitative phenomenological study: Hiring nurses re-entering the workforce after chemical dependence [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2014.

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

1. Greenhouse L. Justices to Enter the Debate Over Lethal Injection. New York Times. 2007 Sep 26;A24.

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	Current Pediatrics Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Pediatr. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2167-4841
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