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. Richman DD. HIV chemotherapy. Nature. 2001;410:995–1001.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Blagosklonny MV, Pardee AB. Conceptual biology: unearthing the gems. Nature. 2002;416:373.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Purdy TP, Peterson RW, Regal CA. Observation of radiation pressure shot noise on a macroscopic object. Science. 2013;339:801–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Rocha AG, Franco A, Krezel AM, Rumsey JM, Alberti JM, Knight WC, et al. MFN2 agonists reverse mitochondrial defects in preclinical models of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2A. Science. 2018;360:336–41.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. O’Connor K, Aardema F, Pélissier M-C. Beyond Reasonable Doubt. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Cuevas E. Advances of Evolutionary Computation: Methods and Operators. 1st ed. 2016. Díaz Cortés MA, Oliva Navarro DA, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. François D, Pineau A, Zaoui A. Viscoelasticity. In: Pineau A, Zaoui A, editors. Mechanical Behaviour of Materials: Volume 1: Micro- and Macroscopic Constitutive Behaviour. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. p. 445–505.

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. Hale T. Earthquake Scientists Have Lost Their Favorite Curb In San Francisco [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earthquake-scientists-have-lost-their-favorite-curb-in-san-francisco/

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. Inventory Management: The Army Could Reduce Logistics Costs for Aviation Parts by Adopting Best Practices. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Apr. Report No.: NSIAD-97-82.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ficchi G. A Qualitative Inquiry: Parental Approaches and Expectations, What Role Does Disability Play? [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2017.

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. Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times. 2017 Feb 24;MM20.

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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